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Museum Notes. 



By The Hon. Curator. 



Some important additions have been made to the 

 Museum, this year, not the least important of which is the 

 collection of Sea-weeds purchased from Miss Lyle, a Collec- 

 tor of note, who has sold one series of local Sea-weeds 

 to the British Museum also. (See Botanical Sectional Re- 

 port). 



A very important addition to the Pre-historic imple- 

 ments has also been made to the Museum. These were 

 collected for the Museum by Mr. J. W. Sinel during the 

 summer. These are temporarily classified as follows : — 



Eoliths. — About 25 of these very crude implements, obtained from 

 the 25ft. beach, have been secured. Some of them are duplicates 

 of forms already in the museum but others are of forms not pre- 

 viously obtained. These Eolithic forms cannot be classified with 

 any Paleolithic culture and are evidently "Pre-Chellean.'' 



Stone keeled scrapers. — These are not new to the Society 

 for some seven had been already collected but they were wrongly 

 classified as Neolithic. At the time that they were first col- 

 lected few of our members believed that Paloelithie man had left 

 any evidence of his presence in the island but the recent finds 

 show that this was a mistake and that almost all cultures exist 

 in the island. These keeled scrapers agree in all respects with 

 the same implements classified on the continent as 

 "Aurignaeian." They are made in diorite and felsite. 



Very rough stone artefacts. — Hough stone implement? 

 of very early neolithic culture, quite new to the museum are now 

 on view. These show forms and detail which agree with the con- 

 tinental forms belonging to the "Eo-Neolithie cultures. If this 

 is confirmed by a further study the find would go to prove that 

 the island was overrun by the same races, in the same order, as 

 were occupying northern Europe but probably at a later date. 

 These are of coarse grained granite. The culture which preceded 

 the Neolithic, called "Azilian" is represented in the new finds by 

 a few broken pieces of implements made of quartz the best of 

 which is the cutting edge of an axe. 



Mousterian Culture. — The period represented by some half 

 dozen implements found this year has been well illustrated by 

 former exhibites but we are nevertheless glad to have been able 

 to add to the collection a few very rough "Poinigs de Main," etc. 

 Some of these are in stone (Granite) so may possibly be of later 

 date for the geogieal evidence is not definite. In one case, how- 

 ever, there can be no doubt for the implement has been polished 

 by movement in the clay just as are the pebbles we find in clay. 



These notes would be incomplete without a note on the 

 unique implement which Master Hugh John de Sausmarez 

 (aged 8) found. The implement is unique in shape and its 

 culture is not yet ascertained. We are able to give an illus- 

 tration. The implement is made in a stone which does not 

 appear to be strictly local and which is evidently from the 

 adjoining coast of Brittany. It is a speckled diorite. 



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