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discovery of a number of incised bones and stones, representing tbe 

 human form as well as several animals. This discovery was published 

 in the C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris (vol. clvii, p. 665), and some account of 

 it, with several figures, appeared in the Illustrated London News for 

 iSTovember 1, 1913. 



The upper part of the deposit is referred to the JSTeolithic and 

 Magdalenian ages; but below this, at a depth of 6-|- feet, a bed 

 (10 inches thick) was found, which yielded the incised drawings 

 above mentioned, as well as numerous mammalian remains and 

 flint implements ; and this is regarded as of Aurignacian age. 

 Immediately below the last-mentioned bed a deposit of sand and 

 small rock-fragments was penetrated to a depth of 10 feet, and this 

 deposit, also referred to the Aurignacian, was found to contain an 

 enormous number of bones of small mammals and other animals. 

 Some twenty species have already been recognized by the discoverers. 



The large number of small bones now shown were obtained by 

 the exhibitor in sifting about 1 cubic foot of this lower, remarkably 

 prolific, deposit, which had been sent to him by Dr. Lucien Mayet, 

 of Lyons. 



The following communication was read: — 



"On an apparentlv Palaeolithic Engraving on a Bone from 

 Sherborne (Dorset)." " By Arthur Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 Pres.G.S. 



The author is indebted to Mr. R. Elliot Steel, of Sherborne School, 

 for the opportunity of studying a fragment of bone bearing an incised 

 drawing of the fore-part of a horse in the style of drawings already 

 well known from several habitations of Palaeolithic man. The 

 specimen was found by schoolboys in an old mound of debris from 

 a quarry in the Inferior Oolite near Sherborne. Nothing is known 

 of the circumstances under which it originally occurred ; but the 

 situation of the quarry is in a small dry valley, on a steep slope 

 facing south-westwards, and the bone may perhaps have been removed 

 with the remains of a rock-shelter. No associated specimens of any 

 interest were recovered ; but at the lower end of the same valley, 

 about a quarter of a mile distant, teeth of mammoth and woolly 

 rhinoceros have been found. Like the only other British specimen 

 hitherto discovered — that described by Professor Boyd Dawkins from 

 the Creswell caves — the drawing is made on a fragment of rib; and 

 the neck of the horse is fi'inged by fine lines, which indicate the short 

 hog-mane usual in sketches made by the Palaeolithic race. 



3. March 25, 1914.— Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., President, 



in the Chair. 



The President announced that the Council had awarded the 

 Proceeds of the Daniel Pidgeon Fund for the present year to Percy 

 George Hamnall Boswell, B.Sc, F.G.S., who proposes to investigate 

 the stratigraphy and petrology of the Lower Eocene strata of the 

 north-eastern portion of the London Basin. 



