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for the characters which they possess in common, notably their 

 abundant and bold flaking ; but then the fact that some examples 

 were bounded on one side by planes of Pleistocene age, and on the 

 other by planes of recent origin, would remain unexplained. If, on 

 the other hand, only certain specimens were selected as artefacts — 

 Mr. J. R. Moir's interpretation — , then it became difficult to explain 

 the flaking which the}' all possess in common ; and the fact will 

 still remain that ' rostro-carinate ' fomis maybe produced by flaking 

 of widely separate ages. Some of the flints showed recent chipping- 

 under circumstances which suggest that this had been produced by 

 the blows of pebbles driven inland from the sea : that is, in one 

 direction. Attention was also called to ' rostro-carinate ' forms 

 projecting from the side of a big boulder of flint. 



The Rev. H. H. Wltswood exhibited specimens of quartzite and 

 flint-implements from the Broom, Farnham, and Knowle gravel- 

 beds. His object was to show the gradation, from the well- worked 

 implements of undoubted human origin, to the fractured specimens 

 from the Brinkworth plateau-gravels 400 feet above O.D., the 

 so-called ' Eoliths,' the origin of which is so much disputed. 

 A porcellanous, or more probably altered-chert, implement from 

 Sornaliland and a flint-specimen from the cave-shelter at 

 Le Moustier, showed how universally this type prevailed. Especial 

 attention Avas called to a broken flint found by himself in the KnoAvle 

 gravel-pit at Savernake, which had a remarkable glaze over the 

 surface, not only on the fractured but also on the old surface, the 

 t-ause of which yet awaited explanation. 



Mr. H. N. Ridley exhibited a series of stone-implements from 

 the eastern coast of the Malay Peninsula, found in river-gravel and 

 in one case on a bed of alluvial tin-ore. Nothing further is known 

 of the race which made these tools, and it is certain that it lias 

 long been extinct. He showed, in addition, some modern Papuan 

 weapons of stone, in order to illustrate the methods of fastening 

 the stones to the handles, and some tanged sandstone adzes with 

 shell-ornaments and spindle-whorls from the lake-dwellings of 

 Kampong Thorn in Cambodia, also of unknown date. 



Mr. O. A. Sheubsole exhibited a few specimens from the 

 Reading district, in order to show difference of age and variety 

 of use. The Eoliths were from the gravel of the Easthampstead 

 plateau (800 to 400 feet O.D.). The Palwoliths included hollowed 

 scrapers (highly developed from the Eolithic type), gimlets or drills, 

 knives (sometimes with a tang for insertion in a handle), saws, 

 choppers, pickaxes, and polishers : one of the last-named still bears, 

 a finger-print of ancient Man. Heavy two-handed choppers also 

 occurred, identical in form with a specimen shown from the base 

 of the Red Crag. Two at least of the Crag specimens were good 

 Palaeolithic types. He showed, in addition, three specimens of bone 

 (radius and rib of Bos) which had been cut very neatly by a flint 



