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degree of man's civilisation, and a specially beautiful picture was 

 shown, being a photograph of an Acheuillian flint by Dr. Hamilton 

 by the Lumiere colour process. But the most interesting illustrations 

 were those of "the latest discovery," namely, flint implements 

 found two years ago in the eastern counties of England by Mr. 

 J. R. Moir, of Ipswich, below the Red Crag, absolutely at the very 

 base, below the shelly crag and resting on the London clay.) 



These flint implements are quite unlike river gravel 

 types. They are of eagle's beak shape — hence called 

 44 rostro-carinate " implements — and the men who made them 

 must have had huge flints to work on. Scratches on these imple- 

 ments afford evidence that the tools were made before the ice 

 covered the surface of Suffolk and Norfolk, and that therefore 

 there was ice before the Red Crag Bed was deposited — a fact that 

 was most important to geologists. These implements are of 

 the very greatest interest, because they carry back the existence 

 of man to a far more distant period than that of the river 

 gravels. In any case, these eagle beak implements are of quite a 

 new type. 



Sir Daniel Morris, in proposing a vote of thanks to Sir 

 Ray Lankester for his most interesting address, expressed the 

 delight of the members at his acceptance of the Presidency of the 

 Society, and said his lecture would doubtless be an event of very 

 considerable importance as regarded the Society's future. Sir 

 Daniel regretted that Dr. Ord had found it necessary to retire from 

 the position of Chairman of the Council, but said the members 

 would be glad to learn that this gentleman would still continue his 

 interest as Chairman of the Geological Section. They hoped with 

 this continuance of interest on the part of Dr. Ord and others that 

 there would be a large increase in the membership, so that they 

 might later be strong enough to approach the Borough Council 

 and ask them whether they could not find a room or quarters or 

 give a home to the Society either in the building now being erected 

 at the Lansdowne or elsewhere. If they were powerful and showed 

 that they were capable of doing good work in the interests of the 

 people of Bournemouth, then he thought they would get what 

 they wanted. They wanted a place for their very interesting 

 collection of fossils, plants, etc. , which at present was locked up ; n 

 a small building in Granville Chambers, where hardly anyone 

 wanted to see them. What they wanted to do was to start a small 

 museum, and to that end they must get the assistance of the 

 Borough Council. They had as Mayor a member of the Council of 

 the Society, and that was an encouraging fact in connection with 

 their want. If they all worked together they would make the 

 Society of very great value, and it would be the means of attracting 

 men like Sir Ray Lankester to Bournemouth, as residents of the 

 place. And he was pleased to announce that their new President 

 contemplated spending two or three months of the coming winter 

 in Bournemouth. (Applause.) If they got men like Sir Ray 



