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The following Papers were read : 



On the Flint Flakes of Lyell's First Stone Period. — By Mr, Enys, 



Antiquities of the Parish of Lanivet. — From Mr. N. Hare, junr., 

 Liskeard. 



The Ancient Bishopric of Cornwall. — By the Kev. J. Carne, M. A., 

 Eglos Merther. 



Botanical Meinoranda of the Parish of St. Clement. — By Mr. T, 

 Cragoe. 



Flint Flakes, &c. — In regard to Mr. Enys's Paper — the ob- 

 ject in which was to show that Flint Flakes of Lyell's First Stone 

 Period were natural products, and not made by the hand of man 

 — the President spoke of the national collection recently opened 

 in Victoria Street, London, and which had excited considerable 

 attention among Antiquaries. It was a remarkable collection, and 

 it comprised the valuable contribution made by Mr. Christie, in 

 the course of this year, of what were called prae-historic remains, 

 particularly those which had been found in the South of France, 

 These had all been collected by Mr. Christie himself, and they 

 were to be kept apart from the other similar collections. It was 

 a most remarkable collection, and shewed that at an early period 

 there must have existed in this country a peoj)le whose habits and 

 practices were very much those of the most uncultivated races at 

 the present day. There were not only flint articles, but remark- 

 able specimens of sculpture on stone, ivory, and bone. Any persons 

 who had not seen this collection would do well to visit it, as an 

 examination of its contents would amply repay them. It occupied 

 five or six rooms, and the wdiole of the articles were of praediis- 

 toric, or supposed prae-historic date. 



The President said further that he quite understood Mr. 

 Enys to say that, without entering on any question as to the date 

 of those apparently artificial vestiges of flint or other natural 

 material, he confined himself simply to instances in which he had 

 observed that many flints in the form of flakes, such as had been 

 frequently ascribed to human agency, might have been produced 

 by natural causes. But of course it did not follow that human 

 agency might not have been employed in making certain flint im- 

 plements. He thought it was impossible to carry the case much 

 further than that. There were in the Museum of this Institution, 

 and to a greater extent in the Christie Museum, numerous flakes 

 Avhich, set apart from others, could hardly be said to be of human 

 agency ; there was nothing in them which might not be ascribed 

 to nature — to so-called accidental causes ; if they had stood alone, 

 they could not have been said to be of human production, and the 

 only reason why they were entitled to be so placed in collections 



