Yol. 70.] PKOCEEDES'GS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. V 



Colonel A. W. Jamieson exhibited a series of specimens that 

 he had collected in the south-east of Hampshire, and he wished to 

 draw attention to this district, for he thought that it deserved 

 more consideration than it had vet received. The area is bounded 

 on the north and west by the Meon, on the east by the Sussex 

 border, and on the south is the Undereliff of the Isle of Wight. 

 This country is strewn with worked flints of all ages, especially so 

 from the Chalk-summit to the sea. 



Worked flints were furnished by a series of gravels on the marine 

 plain, summarized on the geological map as Plateau Gravel. The 

 sections are good, and constantly varying on account of the rapid 

 destruction of the coast. 



The bottom layer of these gravels, which rests on denuded 

 Bracklesham Beds, consists of Arctic Drift full of igneous erratics 

 and crowded with flints of cafe-au-lait and ochre colour, to- 

 gether with subangular masses cut about in a manner similar to 

 those exhibited by Prof. Sollas. So-called ' Eolithic ' forms are 

 abundant. Upwards early Palaeolithic layers follow, with the con- 

 ventional Drift-types, seveial of which were shown. On the top is 

 the brick-earth or loess, crowded with worked flints which have 

 the appearance of being Aurignacian. They include steep-sided 

 side-scrapers and segmental tools. In this deposit the speaker had 

 discovered a human skeleton, minus the skull, the bones of which 

 were now underaroina; examination bv Prof. A. Keith. Above 

 the marine plain a point of interest is the conspicuous hill of 

 Portsdown, which has yielded a vast number of flints, worked 

 on one side, shorn off flat on the other, and bearing conspicuous 

 cones and bulbs of percussion. 



The high Chalk of the interior is in places patched with 

 Clay-Avith-Flints that has withstood destruction, and is rich in 

 fabricated flints, which, in the speaker's opinion, are chiefly 

 Mousterian. 



Implements were also shown from Catherington, Hixton, Wind- 

 mill Hill, and Blendworth, the last-named locality being rich in 

 segmental tools and half-finished work showing huge cones of 

 percussion. The speaker urged the view that the Clay-with- Flints 

 was a formation coseval with the history of Man. 



Prof. W. J. Sollas exhibited a series of specimens to illustrate 

 the production of ' rostro-carinate ' forms of flint by natural agencies. 

 One from the top of the Chalk at Swanscombe showed jointing 

 in situ, and some from the beach under the Chalk cliffs of Alum 

 Bay showed the effects of wave-driven pebbles ; but the great 

 majority were obtained by Mr. E. Heron -Allen from the beach 

 at Selsey Bill, and it was to these that attention was especially 

 -directed. If they were all of human workmanship — Sir E. Ray 

 Lankester's contention 1 — , there would be no difficulty in accounting 



1 [This is not Sir E. Ray Lankester's view : I regret that I have erroneously 

 •attributed it to him.- -W. J. S., December 12th, 1913.'] 



