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a year ago he wrote making a similar inquiry. Through his means I 

 was introduced to the Rev. Eeginald A. Gatty, with whom I have had 

 a good deal of interesting correspondence on the subject of small flint 

 implements. Mr. Gatty has found thousands of small flint tools in South 

 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and has contributed a most instructive 

 paper on the subject of " Pigmy Flint Implements," to the "Reliquary 

 and Illustrated Archaeologist" for January, 1900.^ He gives a history of 

 the discovery of these minute objects, and illustrates his paper very 

 fully by figures carefully drawn by Mr. Worthington Smith. 



Mr. Gatty says his attention was first attracted to these small 

 tools by a paper written by Dr. CoUey March, of Rochdale, on the 

 -early Neolithic floor of East Lancashire. In this paper, he says, "Dr. 

 CoUey March describes the discovery of numerous small crescents of 

 flint, the secondary flakir g on which was so fine as to need a magnifying 

 glass. He designates them as borers and gravers, having a fine point 

 for boring holes perhaps in needles, and some with a broader end for 

 graving purposes. Associated with them were hammers, scrapers, 

 flakers, knives, spear -heads, and arrow-tips, rudely made and entirely 

 destitute of polish." He also mentions Mr. Abbott as having found 

 crescent knives and other pigmy tools with them in the Kitchen 

 Middens on the Hastings coast, and that Dr. Allen Sturge had procured 

 some very small implements at Mildenhall, in Cambridgeshire, but the 

 latter are not quite so small in size as some of the others mentioned. He 

 quotes from a pamphlet by M. cle Pierpoint, giving descriptions and 

 figures of small sized implements having the shape of crescent, triangle, 

 trapeze, &c., from the Neolithic open air station in the province of Namur, 

 in Belgium, but M. de Pierpont has not found any of the larger Neolithic 

 implements associated with them. He further gives a description of 

 the finds of Mr. A. C. Carlyle in the rock shelters and caves of the 

 Vindhya hills in India. The implements found here are small, and of 

 crescent, triangular, scaline, and rhomboidal forms, and he says it 

 would be difficult to distinguish the British from the Indian specimens. 

 This I can confirm as regards the specimens which Mr. Gatty has 

 Bubmitted to me. 



M. de Morgan, in " Recherches surles Origines de I'Egypt," 1896, 

 pp. 129-131, and also in the volume for 1897 on the same subject, pp. 

 84, 85, figures and describes a few small crescent shaped fiint objects from 

 Helouau, in Egypt, like some of those referred to, thoi;gh slightly 



^ Mr. Gatty has contributed a second paper on the same subject to Soc. Antiq. 

 Scot, not yet published. 



