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great portion of the time the writer may be considered to be con- 

 temporary with the events lie has recorded." 



The Council submitted to the meeting a statement of what had been 

 done by them as members of the Committee, which, on the President's 

 invitation, had been formed in Calcutta, to raise subscriptions for a 

 memorial to the late Dr. Hugh Falconer. The Committee had raised 

 a subscription in India of some 4,000 Us. in aid of the G-eneral Fund, 

 to which the London Committee had called for contributions. This, 

 added to the £1,450 already subscribed in England, would, it was 

 hoped, suffice to carry out the proposal to found a Natural History 

 Fellowship in the Edinburgh University. Dr. Falconer's bust had 

 been undertaken by Mr. Butler, and for a duplicate of this bust for 

 the Society's Meeting Room, 46 members had entered their names. 

 The subscription list for this duplicate had been of course confined to 

 members, and subscriptions had been in the first instance limited to 

 50 Rs. "With the actual number of subscribers, however, 20 Rs. from 

 each member will, the Council believe, be sufficient. Dr. Partridge, 

 who has throughout kindly acted as Secretary and Treasurer of the 

 Committee, has already written to Dr. Murchison to order the dupli- 

 cate bust. 



Mr. Oldham exhibited a fine series of stone implements of the 

 Amiens or Post-Pliocene type, discovered by Messrs. Foote and King 

 in the lateritic gravels around Madras. He addressed the meeting as 

 follows : — 



"It is now some two years since I had the pleasure of laying 

 before the Society a fine series of chipped stone implements from 

 the neighbourhood of Madras, and of making a few remarks upon 

 them. Since then, as the researches of the Geological Survey of 

 India have progressed, the attention of the gentlemen engaged in these 

 enquiries has naturally been directed to these interesting remains. 

 And as they advanced northwards, they continued to find evidences 

 of the same kind. We have recently received a fine series of these, 

 and, thinking it might be interesting to the members of the Society 

 e them, I have placed them on the table. 

 " Among these arc several very fine specimens, the originals of some 

 of the figures given in illustration of a valuable paper on these stone- 

 implements by Mr. It. Brace Foote, which has been printed by the 



