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museums of Europe of many hastily classified “ paleoliths.” Perhaps 
this was the same kind of Drift likeness that I had observed in April, 
1893, among the ruder incipient forms at the (period b) Neolithic 
quarry of Spiennes in Belgium (The Archæologist, July, 1893. Am. 
Narurauist, Nov., 1893). But at Spiennes as at all other quarries 
that I have studied and mutually compared, it is evident that the 
results of each blade maker’s workshop, by which alone we can explain 
the wastrels, must be first understood. Whatever the similarity 
between Neolithic Cissbury and the paleolithic Drift (and the British 
Museum specimens show none) neolithic Spiennes does not come much 
nearer the paleolithic drift workshop of Abbeville, through the 
similarity of rudest wasters in either case, than it does to Flint Ridge, 
io. 
If Prof. Dawkins recognizes no human chipped implement grading 
out of his Paleolithic period, so he will not with Prof. Prestwich allow 
the work of a more primitive alleged predecessor of the Drift man to 
grade into it, holding that the variously nicked flints “ Plateau imple- 
ments” found by Mr. B. Harrison on the high Kentish downs are of 
ift and not pre-Drift age. But he does not clearly say whether 
he thinks that these curious specimens are blade refuse, finished 
implements or, as Mr. W. G. Smith of Dunstable (who writes me that 
he has found many in the Drift-blade bearing gravels at Caddington) 
regards them, the work of nature. 
Prof. Dawkins showed also at the meeting a good example of a 
modern “ paleolith,” a North American Indian soapstone quarry pick, 
and with it a stone tool very modern yet simpler in form than any 
Paleolith, one of Dr. Leidy’s much ignored and often misunderstood 
“teshoas,” seen used by Utes, together with a set of Trenton specimens 
obtained by Prof, Dawkins and which he said should, with their fel- 
lows collected by Dr. Abbott and Professors Putnam, Hay pom Morse, 
, and Shaler, be placed, until further proof be furnished, in a sus- 
pense account. —H. C. MERCER. 
