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and strata in which the several forms were obtained, — the author 

 attempts some observations about the fashions and the relative age 

 of flint implements, but they have neither any special importance 

 nor novelty. 



The latter part of the book describes some of the relics of 

 primeval man as found on the banks of the Lea, from its source 

 near Dunstable, in Bedfordshire, to London ; with a description of 

 the already known primeval living-place or " palaeolithic floor'' at 

 Stoke-Newington, London. 



In Chapter XIII. we have traces of Primeval Man elsewhere, 

 near the Lea, in South Beds and North Herts. 



Chapters XIV. & XV. Traces of Primeval Man near the Lea in 

 Middlesex and Essex, from Walthani to Tottenham, on the Border- 

 Line of London ; and from Tottenham to the Junction of the Lea 

 with the Thames at Blackwall : with notes on Stone AVeapons and 

 Tools — the Most Ancient Implements; Implements of Medium 

 Age ; Implements of Least Palaeolithic Age ; Pieces of Implements 

 Conjoined and Flakes Replaced ; How Stone Implements were 

 Made ; worked Wood and Bone ; Fossils as Beads ; Fossil Bones ; 

 Shells of Land- and Freshwater Mollusca ; Plant-Remains ; For- 

 geries of Implements. 



Chapter XVI. Mesolithic Implements. 



Chapter XVII. Palaeolithic Stones found by Neolithic Men and 

 Reworked. 



Chapter XVIII. Neolithic Implements and Keltic Relics, from 

 South Bedfordshire to London : — Implements of Stone and 

 Bronze; Earthworks, Roads, and Trackways near Dunstable; 

 British Hut Foundations near Dunstable ; Dene-Holes ; Graves, 

 Tumuli, Skeletons, Bones ; Place-Names near Dunstable. 



It is evident, and indeed partly stated, that Chapters XIII. to 

 XVIII. consist of renewals and reprints of earlier notes and 

 memoirs by the author and others, published in the Journ. Anthro- 

 pological Institute, Proceed. Geologists' Association, Quart. Journ. 

 Geological Society, ' Nature,' ' Natural Science/ Proceed. Essex 

 Field-Club, 'Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain,' 'Archaeo- 

 logia Cambrensis,' &c. In such a compilation, however, the refer- 

 ences to papers by fellow-workers should be complete, and careful 

 acknowledgement of all sources of information should be made in 

 every case, so that the reader should distinguish what is not, from 

 what is original, in the book before him. 



The printing and paper are good. " All the Illustrations are 

 original or taken from original sources." They have been admi- 

 rably drawn (some after photographs) and reproduced on wood or 

 otherwise, by the Artist-engraver, Mr. W. G. Smith, himself. 

 The " archaeological map of the Caddington and Dunstable district " 

 clearly defines the topography of the author's discoveries ; and 

 another map shows a part of the north-eastern neighbourhood of 

 London. The numerous illustrations comprise skulls, bones, stone 

 tools and flakes, sections, local views, a few shells and fossils, and 

 four neat and expressive ideal portraitures of the aborigines. We 



