184 ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
The first three (and possibly four) shade into each other 
chronologically. A few of the specimens, illustrating the groups, 
are as under : — 
I.— RECENT. 
English Tinder Box, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Obtained for 
the exhibitor by the mother of the present Lord Peckover in 1873. 
She, an old lady of seventy, as a child had command of the family 
tinder-box, and kindly made the tinder and matches included in the 
exhibit. 
Modern Flint and Steel apparatus still in use in China and 
the Moluccas. Modern Dyak (Borneo) Fire-drills and Fire-saws. 
The remarkable Fire-syringe of the Dyaks, first described by 
Pigafetta in his description of Vasco de Ghimai's voyage round the 
world; but never obtained and described till the exhibitor's travels 
in Borneo. {See Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 1890.) 
Four arrow and spear heads, two Californian, two Australian. 
These demonstrate the readiness with which the savage recog- 
nises material, whether natural or artificial, which is suitable for 
" flaking" — i.e., fashioning into tools. The American pair were made 
by the surviving remnant of the Red Cloud Indians, residing south 
of Mount Shasta, California. One is made from natural glass 
(Obsidian), one from artificial glass (hock bottle) ; so the Australian 
recognised the worth of glass and porcelain obtained by the natives 
of the Cambridge Gulf from the insulators on the Transcontinental 
Telegraph Line. Samples of thin stone tools are shown. Among 
other stone implements shown is one of the musket flints (French) 
captured. 
II.— PREHISTORIC. 
Typical stone and obsidian implements from Canada, Colorado, 
California, Mexico ; bronze implements from Mexico and China. 
The Mexican specimens were collected by Dr. E. B. Tylor in 1856. 
(See his "Anahuac") The Californian specimens are from graves of 
an extinct Indian tribe in Southern California, and include a fine 
necklace of recent Pacific shells. Some of the Colorado arrow heads 
are of great delicacy. 
III.— NEOLITHIC. 
The Neolithic implements include Flakes, Scrapers, Strike-a- 
lights, Arrow heads } Celts, Sfc. A Necklace of Fossil Sponge {Ooscino- 
