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building already held in fee, with the collection and apparatus 

 already provided, would be included as part payment of the 

 amount required to meet any grant from the department, if it 

 could be legally effected. In answer to that, he received a 

 letter stating that the amount of the grant would depend upon 

 the space proposed to be devoted to science and art instruction. 

 Any application for grant in aid of fittings for laboratories must 

 be made before such fittings were ordered. No further step 

 had been taken, and the conditions he thought were such as 

 could be easily complied with. No grant, however, could exceed 

 £500. The width of frontage in Pydar Street of the proposed 

 site would be about 43 feet, and he thought it would be ample 

 for their purpose. 



Mr. H. M. Jeffery, a relative of the late Eev. Henry 

 Martyn, made a few remarks in reference to the letters presented 

 by him to the Institution, written by the celebrated missionary, 

 on his work, and pastoral, and literary labours. 



Mr. Whitley made some remarks in reference to the 

 neolithic celts which he presented to the museum. He had 

 given 20 years of study to flint implements, and he had come to 

 the decided conclusion that the great mass of flints said to be 

 paleolithic and proving the early evidence of men, and as the 

 work of men's hands, were nothing but of natural formation, 

 although such men as Mr. John Evans, Professor Dawkins, and 

 even Sir Charles Lyell and Sir John Lubbock had advanced the 

 opposite theory. The flints which he had presented that day 

 were undoubtedly made by man, as they were beautifully 

 ground, and they were broken in the only way they could be 

 broken. They were found on Eastbourne Downs, and he had 

 come to the conclusion that there had been a war there in very 

 early times. The other flakes lying on the table, it was quite 

 clear, had been split by natural causes. In an hour's search 

 on the chalk downs of Sussex he picked up 295 of these 

 scrapers and flints similar to those brought from Egypt by Sir 

 John Lubbock, and shown to various societies as the work of 

 men. He (Mr. Whitley) was at present constructing roads at 

 Eastbourne, and there his contractor had collected these split 

 flints by hundreds of tons, and was using them for metalling 



