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Hamilton and A. M'l. Cleland, and Prof. Yapp replied to the 

 questions asked by these speakers. After the election of Miss 

 Gibb and Miss S. Lees to membership the proceedings concluded. 



" A FEW NOTES ON ANCIENT MAN J AND THE IMPLEMENTS 

 HE USED." 



At the fourth meeting of the Winter session, which was held 

 in the Museum, on 15th February, Mr. John M. Dickson 

 presided, and Mr. Charles Bulla gave a paper on above subject. 



Mr. Bulla has had a long connection with the Club (he was 

 a Committee Member 35 years ago) and has been a diligent 

 collector for a generation. It was a simple matter for the lecturer 

 to illustrate his subject with a large number of specimens of flint 

 implements of the various ages referred to, as being connected 

 with the presence of ancient man — as tools for fashioning, and as 

 implements for the chase, defence or offence. The wonderful 

 manner in which flint implements are preserved through the vast 

 period of time since their manufacture — edges and points often as 

 perfect as when they left the skilled hand of the artificer of pre- 

 historic times. As these flint tools are the key to the respective 

 periods of the appearance of man of various types and ages, it is 

 well that the student should not miss any opportunities of 

 collecting ; and there is no better district than our own, where 

 ancient sites are numerous and accessible. The lecturer showed 

 maps to illustrate the appearance of caves and rock-shelters which 

 have yielded interesting results to the explorer; he exhibited a 

 baton du commandment, and showed illustrations of others from 

 the Dordogue. Through the courtesy of Mr. Deane of the 

 Municipal Museum some cases of implements and a series of 

 their new lantern slides for illustrating lectures where shown by 

 Mr. A. R. Hogg. 



The Chairman and several members spoke to the paper, and 

 the election to membership of Miss Masterson and Miss Bradley 

 brought the proceedings to a close. 



