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2. Implements with squar eside edges, wliich used to be thought 

 very rare in India. 



3. A. small oblong flat stone, the edge of which has been cut with 

 small notches and which has probably done service as a saw. 



4. Perforated stones, all of sandstone. 



5. The ' shoulder-headed ' celts of chert and sandstone. Some of 

 them have two small notches, continuing a line down along each side of 

 the neck down into the body of the stone. These notches are clearly 

 marks left by the manufacturer, and show that the neck has been at 

 least partially cut. The late Mr. Peal, arguing from the resemblance 

 betw^een these shoulder-headed celts and a kind of small iron hoe used 

 in some Naga villages in weeding the hill paddy, assumed that the celts 

 were minature hoes. Mr. Bodding thinks it equally likely that they 

 may have been adzes. The fact that these cherts are found in the 

 Malayan peninsula and in Chota Nagpur does not show that the pre- 

 sent inhabitants of the two regions are connected. It shows that in a 

 former age the same people have either been living in them, or there 

 has been some kind of intercourse between the countries. 



6. HiTnalayan Siitniner Storm of Septeniber 24th, 1903, and the 

 weather immediately subsequent to that date in Northern hidia — By 

 C. Little, M.A. 



(Abstract.) 



The paper on the Himalayan Summer Storm of September 24th, 

 1903, and the weather immediately subsequent to that date in Northern 

 India, is the third of a series dealing with similar occurrences during 

 the past two years. Of these occurrences, which have been called Hima- 

 layan Storms, because they are first observed in the region of the 

 Himalayas, two striking examples belong to the monsoon season of 1902, 

 and are dealt with in a paper entitled " Two remarkable Rainbursts in 

 Bengal." Two still more remarkable examples belong to the monsoon 

 season of 1903, and it is the latter of these that is discussed in this paper. 



Extracts are quoted from the Englishynan and Pioneer to show 

 the character of the weather in Northern India during the latter 

 half of September and the extraordinary change that began in 

 Bengal about the 24th September. Father Francotte closed the usual 

 weekly weather report in the Englishman on September 15th with 

 the remark — " This year, 1903, there seems therefore to be greater 

 fear for a speedy termination of the rainy period," and in the Pioneer 

 of September 28th there occurred the following remark : — "The sky 

 is becoming clear all over Upper India and fine weather is now pro- 

 mised by the Meteorological Department." 



