Reviews— E. T. Stevens s "Flint Chips" 287 



with appropriate table and wall-cases, are exhibited in four great 

 groups : — 



I. Kemains of Animals found associated with, the works of Man. 

 11. Implements of stone. 



III. Implements of bronze. 



IV. Implements, weapons, and ornaments of Modern Savages, which 



serve to throw light upon the use of similar objects belonging 

 to pre-historic times. 



Under the first division Dr. H. P. Blackmore gives us a clear 

 account of the Mammalian remains found in the " Drift Series " 

 preserved in the Museum. To this is added the land, freshwater,: 

 and marine shells from the valley of the Somme, France ; and next 

 come the Mammalia from the Caves. 



Mr. Stevens then proceeds to describe, in order due, the collection 

 of the Stone age, dividing them into Palaeolithic and Neolithic 

 groups, according to Sir John Lubbock's classification. 



Under the first we find the Drift implements from the Somme 

 and Poitou in France, from the Norfolk and Suffolk valleys, from 

 Bedford, Salisbury, and numberless other localities in England. 



Many good types of each form are exhibited in the cases, and 

 near them are placed the implements in use among modem savages, 

 in order to explain the manner in which they were used, and the 

 mode of " hafting " or fixing them in their handles. 



Short accounts of the several caves from which remains have been 

 procured for the Museum are given, each in its appropriate place. 



From the Palaeolithic we pass to the Neolithic period. The 

 ancient pit dwellings near Salisbury, which the author compares to 

 the Souterrains in the department of Tarn, Garonne, Loire, etc., in 

 France, have also their analogues in the underground Post-houses in 

 certain parts of Eussia infested by mosquitos.^ 



The modern use of stone tools, in felling trees, making canoes, 

 and all the numberless requirements of the hunter and fisher state, 

 furnish matter of the greatest interest, as does alsO' the methods of 

 making flint and stone implements, as practised by the various tribes 

 of Indians and other aborigines in modem times. 



From the stone implements we pass pleasantly along — with Mr. 

 Stevens for our guide — to the Ancient Lake Dwellings of Italy and 

 Switzerland, the Shell-mounds of Denmark ; then to North America, 

 the West Indies, Central America, Mexico ; each series of objects 

 from each different region being appropriately illustrated by quota- 

 tions and extracts from the best authorities, who have written upon 

 the several countries and remains described; the author being in 

 every case credited with each quotation. 



No subject treated of by Mr. Stevens affords matter of greater 

 interest to the geologist than that of the general distribution of 

 stone implements throughout the world, showing that every country 

 and people have, either in modern or prehistoric times, passed 

 through the barbaric palceolithic and neolithic stages, and that no 



1 See Mr. Lord's account ia " Illustrated Travels."^ 



