Haynes.] 274 [Feb. 3, 



belonging to prehistoric times, entitled " Musee Prehistorique," 

 Plate 11 is devoted to such pointed implements, from the river- 

 gravels of the quaternary period, as are shaped like arrow- or 

 lance-heads. But all of these are set down as belonging to the 

 second division of the Palaeolithic Period, the so-called Epoch of 

 Le Moustier. 



I think this will be sufficient to vindicate my statement, possi- 

 bly a little exaggerated, that "the palaeolithic man was no more 

 capable of making a stone arrow-head, than he was of building a 

 pyramid." 



Dr. S. Kneeland read a paper on the Santhals, an aboriginal 

 tribe of Eastern Bengal. 



General Meeting, Feb. 17, 1886. 



The President, Mr. S. H. Scudder in the chair. 



Dr. W. G. Farlow spoke of the collection of lichens belonging to 

 the Boston Society of Natural History. This consists almost 

 wholly of the lichens from the herbarium of Thomas Taylor, a 

 donation by Mr. C. J. Sprague, No. 676 of the donation book of 

 the Society, and the valuable collection of North American lichens 

 recently presented to the Society. The first named collection be- 

 longed to Mr. Thomas Taylor who died at Dunkerran, Kenmare, 

 Ireland, in February, 1848. A physician by profession, he filled for 

 a short time the position of lecturer on Botany and Natural His- 

 tory in the Royal Cork Scientific Association but soon withdrew 

 to private life. As a botanist he is best known by his works on 

 mosses and hepaticae and he was a co-worker with Sir W. J. Hooker 

 in this department. He also described the lichens published in 

 the Flora Antarctica. On his death, his collection was offered for 

 sale and the. whole or, at any rate, a portion of it was purchased 

 by Mr. John Lowell of Boston who presented the lichens to this 

 Society and the Hepaticae to the herbarium of Harvard University. 

 The advertisement of the sale of Hooker's Journal of Botany 

 stated that there were 2251 sheets of lichens. They include many 

 beautiful specimens embracing the types of the Antarctic lichens 

 and also some valuable specimens collected by the early botanists 



