Proceedings. 35 



Ordinary Meeting, November 26th, 1895. 

 Henry Wilde, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors 

 •of the books upon the table. 



Mr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A., exhibited some finely-worked 

 flints recently acquired by the Manchester Museum, 

 collected by Professor Flinders Petrie between Ballas and 

 Nagada, in Upper Egypt. These flints comprised knives, 

 spearheads, and forked arrows believed to have been used 

 for severing the sinews of gazelles, and the necks of birds. 

 The implements are of finer workmanship than any which 

 have been found elsewhere, and are among the evidences 

 which have been collected of the existence of a new race, 

 hitherto unknown, between the sixth and tenth Egyptian 

 dynasties. 



