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beautiful examples have come down to us from prehistoric times in Europe. 

 I allude to the notches which are placed opposite to one another one on 

 each side between the barbs and the stem in. one form of arrow-head, 

 and of which two pairs are present in some European flint spear-heads 

 of Neolithic age. The specimen from Ranchi which exhibits this in- 

 teresting peculiarity is a broad leaf-shaped arrow-head of white quartz. 

 It bears on each side at rather less than half way along its length from 

 the butt a rounded indentation, by the aid of which doubtless it was 

 attached to its shaft much after the manner depicted in the accom- 

 panying adaptation of Fig. 104 of Nilsson's ' Stone Age ' representing 

 a stone arrow-head from California mounted on its shaft. 



Fig. 6 represents a chert arrow-head found by Mr. Driver. This 

 specimen — the original colour of which cannot be ascertained, because it 

 is weathered to a dirty clay grey — has qo notches, but on the contrary 

 has the base semicircularly rounded, like typical British leaf-shaped 

 arrow-heads* of Neolithic age. 



Fig. 7 is a rock-crystal arrow-head found by Mr. Driver. It is 

 worked into a slight notch on each side of its thick tang-like base. 



Figs. 8, 9, and 12 of PI. V represent three simple trihedral arrow- 

 heads —all of black chert — of which Fig. 8 is slightly weathered, 11, 

 scarcely at all weathered, presents a large notch on the right side, and 

 12, weathered to the colour of fuller's-earth, a projection on the left 

 side. All three are so shaped as readily to have been secured to their 

 shafts by cords and gum without the aid of special notches. 



Fig. 10 represents an octahedral arrow-head roughly but skilfully 

 hewn out of rock crystal. 



Fig. 6 is a not very successful representation of a pretty little 

 leaf- shaped specimen in milky quartz, and Fig. 7 another of similar 

 form in reddish chert. 



Fig. 11, similar in form to that represented in Fig. 6 of PL IV, 

 is of pale brown-coloured chalcedony weathered white so as to be 

 adherent to the tongue like the subject of Fig. 1 of PI. IV. 



The most interesting and remarkable of all the objects I have picked 

 out of the material so kindly gathered for me by Mr. Driver are un- 

 questionably those represented in the first five figures of PI. V. Four of 

 them are, there can, I think, be no doubt, chisel-edged arrow-heads 

 similar to those which have been found in Egyptian tombsf — in several 

 cases still secured by bitumen to the shaft, — and on Neolithic sites in 

 different parts of Europe, { including even the British Isles. 



* Evans, op. cit. 333, figs. 281—4. 



t Evans, op. cit. p. 329, fig. 272. 



X Evans, op. cit. p. 352, 353, fig. 342, and Espy. p. 365, fig. 344. 



