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possession of a respiratory and locomotive funnel, formed by 

 a modification of the morphological structures termed Epipodia. 

 Well authenticated accounts of cuttle fishes of enormous size 

 were quoted. The length of one of these was said to be 39 

 feet." The lecture was illustrated by numerous specimens 

 and diagrams. 



On Wednesday evening, 16th Nov., Mr, J. H. Staples 

 read a paper on " A Visit to a Pre-Historic Manufactory of 

 Flint Implements, at Spiennes, near Mons, Belgium," of 

 which the following is an abstract : — 



When spending some holidays in Belgium this summer 

 he heard from some friends of the existence near the town of 

 Mons, in that country, of ancient excavations in the chalk rock 

 for the purpose of obtaining the flint for the manufacture of 

 stone implements. He was able to spend a day at Mons in 

 order to see these remains. In the house of a M. Houzeau 

 de Lehaie, a gentleman living at the village of Hyon, near 

 Mons, he saw a great collection of flint weapons, and other 

 objects found in and about the ancient works, and from this 

 gentleman he was, at the end of the day, given as many 

 specimens as he could take. First he went to a place called 

 the Camp a Cayaux — Camp a Cayaux is the Mons dialect for 

 the French Champ a Cailloux, that is, field of flints. It is 

 thickly strewn with broken flints, imperfect and broken flint 

 weapons, and also good specimens could easily be obtained 

 after a little search. These are the remains of an extensive 

 flint implement manufactory at this place ; and at the other 

 side of a small stream called La Trouille, the excavations, 

 pits, and galleries into the chalk for the purpose of extracting 

 the flint can be seen exposed by the cutting of the railway 

 which runs through this place. The fields on which the re- 

 mains of these ancient works are found form a table-land, 

 or plateau, intersected by two rivers — La Trouille, just 



