542 [Proc. E.N.F.C, 



consequently, the implements made from them are much 

 smaller than implements of the same class in Antrim. At 

 Dundrum all the objects are small, but many scrapers are not as 

 large as a lady's finger-nail, and many showing portions of the 

 old crust. At Malahide the flakes are still smaller than those 

 found at Dundrum. 



An animated discussion followed, in which Mr. Gray defended 

 himself with considerable force from jVlr. Knowles' strictures, 

 and Messrs. Robt. Young, W. H. Patterson, John Carson, Joseph 

 Wright, R. LI. Praeger, G. Donaldson, and others took part. The 

 general impression appeared to be that, in face of the positive state- 

 ments of Mr. Knowles and those he had quoted, the report of the 

 sub-committee though perfectly unbiassed, had not absolutely 

 set the question of the position the worked flints occupy in the 

 gravels at rest. The Hon. Secretary pointed out that Mr. 

 Knowles had now raised two other points, which, if substantiated, 

 would be of extreme interest — viz., that these worked flints, or 

 some of them, had been washed out of some older raised beach 

 or bed of clay, and re-deposited in the Larne bed, making them, 

 if this were true, of a vastly greater age ; and also, that the 

 implement workers further south had been to a considerable 

 extent dependent for their stock of material upon the old, 

 cast-off cores and flints of the northern workers washed along 

 the beach, and re-worked when picked up further south ; and 

 he suggested that the members of the Club should keep their 

 eyes open for proof or disproof of these novel statements. With 

 regard to the latter statement, it is reasonable to suppose that 

 the natural flints and fragments embedded in the southern drift 

 would be much smaller than those in Antrim found in situ^ and 

 it would be from these that the bulk of the southern implements 

 would of necessity be made. 



The Fifth Meeting of the Winter Session was held in the 

 Museum on Tuesday evening, 22nd March — the Rev. Canon 

 Grainger, D.D., M.R.I. A., presiding. On this occasion no 

 paper was read, but the evening was devoted to the microscope. 



