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alister, chairman) annoimeed that since 

 their last report, Dr. C. S. Myers has pub- 

 lished a paper in the current number of 

 the Journal of the Anthropological Insti- 

 tute on 'Tattooing in Modern Egypt,' the 

 material for which was procured in the 

 eoui'se of the committee's investigations. 

 Dr. Myers has also presented an album to 

 the Anthropological Photographs Com- 

 mittee of the British Association which 

 contains some four hundred photographs, 

 full face and profile, of Egyptians and 

 Sudanese. The committee asked for a 

 grant of £35 to defray the services of a 

 clerk, who, under Dr. Myers's supei'vision, 

 will tabulate, average and determine the 

 variability and correlation of the various 

 series of measurements already collected. 



The Scottish Ethnographic Committee 

 (Mr. E. W. Brabrook, chairman) reported 

 a delay in the ' Pigmentation Survey of the 

 School Children of Scotland, ' owing to the 

 difficulty of procuring suitable lithographic 

 color cards to be used as color scales for 

 hair and eyes. The Educational Institute 

 of Scotland has passed a resolution recom- 

 mending the teachers to supply the in- 

 formation desired by the committee, an 

 action which will be of immense value in 

 expediting the survey. The subdivision of 

 Scotland into 110 numbered districts has 

 already been completed. 



Papers relating to various fields of arche- 

 ological research were read. Mrs. Stopes 

 presented two papers, accompanied by ex- 

 hibits of specimens, and relating to the last 

 discoveries of her late husband. Of 'Pale- 

 olithic Implements from the Shelly Gravel 

 Pit at Swanscombe, Kent,' she exhibited 

 the large and small hache types, broad leaf- 

 shaped type, discs, ovate types, awls, boat- 

 shaped type, angular projectiles, graving 

 tools, scrapers and spoke shaves, represent- 

 ing various shades of fiint and patina- 

 white, cream, ocherous, brown, black. 

 Many of them are derived and water worn. 



The implements were found associated with 

 a fauna containing many extinct species. 



The 'Saw-edged Paleoliths' presented by 

 Mrs. Stopes were from the Craylands gravel 

 pit at Swanscombe. The serration is in- 

 tentional and not a result of accident or 

 use ; is generally on a straight edge, though 

 sometimes continued into spoke shaves and 

 scrapers. 



Mr. Llewellen Treacher's paper 'On the 

 Occurrence of Stone Implements in the 

 Thames VaUey between Beading and Maid- 

 enhead' was read by Mr. Monckton, of the 

 Geological Section. Mr. Treacher's in- 

 vestigations extend to the upper, middle 

 and lower terraces, from all three of which 

 important collections have been made. 



Some of the megalithic moniunents of 

 Kent were discussed in Mr. George Clinch's 

 communication entitled 'Coldrum, and its 

 Relation to Stonehenge.' Mr. Clinch 

 pointed out that the hitherto published 

 descriptions of Coldrum do not mention 

 its most important and characteristic fea- 

 ture, namely, that between the two iipright 

 stones which form the sides of the chamber 

 there stand two stones about midway, form- 

 ing a partition which divides the space into 

 two sepulchral chambers. The two up- 

 right stones are of remarkable size. Their 

 regular form, good proportions and flat 

 surfaces are also noticeable features, sug- 

 gesting artificial shaping and perhaps dress- 

 ing. These point to a late epoch of the 

 neolithic period, and present remarkable 

 similarities to the forms at Stonehenge. 

 The idea of enclosing the principal struc- 

 ture within a line of stones is also common 

 to Stonehenge and Coldrum. But Col- 

 drum was obviously a sepulchral monu- 

 ment. Stonehenge, on the other hand, 

 though following to some extent the same 

 arrangement, 'was conceived on a more 

 ambitious scale, and probably designed for 

 a very different purpose.' 



The megalithic structures of Kent, in- 



