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tSt Mary's, Truro: "In Memoriam Thomffi Hasselli," 1567. Geo. Fitzpen, 

 alias Phippen, 1628. " Cuthbert Sydenham, Woollen Draper, Mayor 

 of this town, 16.80." 



These, said Mr. Paull, were but a small proportion of the Me- 

 morial Brasses in this county, among which were tributes to the 

 memory of members of some of the most distinguished families in 

 Cornwall, such as the Arundels, the Bassets, the Killigrews, &c., 

 &c. On behalf of this Institution and its Museum, he should be 

 glad to receive numerous additions to its present stock of rubbings. 

 — There Avas also an inscribed stone near Fowej^, of which he should 

 be thankful for a rubbing. 



The Chairman observed that it would be well to look after a 

 monument, of Roman character, at the back of Rialton house, and 

 in the inscription on v/hich, he believed, a " tribunus " was men- 

 tioned. — With regard to certain inverted letters in some of these 

 ancient inscriptions, Mr. Smirke remarked that this was attribut- 

 able — not to the literary persons of the time who composed the 

 inscriptions, but to the workmen, who, ignorant of the value of 

 letters, and making their cuttings from a sort of cartoon before 

 them, took it upon them to place the letters as might suit their 

 convenience, 



Mr. H. M. Whitley, in the absence of his father, read a Paper 

 by the latter, on Flint-flakes found in the south-west of England. 

 In this Paper Mr. Whitley supported the opinion which he had 

 previously expressed — namely, that the flint-flakes which he had 

 found scattered along the coast line of Croyde Bay, and which had 

 been assumed to be " arrow heads and flint knives " of a prae- 

 Adamite race of men, had been produced by natural causes. Since 

 that Paper was written, he had found large deposits of these flmt- 

 flakes scattered over two/ hundred square miles of country ; and 

 he stated that the bulb of percussion, which was relied upon as 

 the almost exclusiA^e evidence that the flakes were formed by man, 

 was found as perfectly developed on the rough split flints — so in- 

 definite in form as to bear no mark of human skill — as the most 

 perfect of flakes. In conclusion, he remarked : — " The ground and 

 polished celts of the second stone period of Lyell are so obviously 

 the work of man, and are so often found with other indications of 

 his presence, that there can be no doubt that they belong to the 

 domain of the antiquary. But the flint-flakes, so far as they are 

 now included in the first or prae- Adamite stone period, are within 

 the province of the geologist, being formed and deposited by 

 natural causes. And thus the boundary line between antiquarian 

 records and geological facts must, in my opinion, be drawn between 

 the first and second period of Lyell." 



