ORDINARY MEETING, April 11, 1881. 
H. Cabman Jones, Esq., in the Chair. 
The miDutes of tho last niGeting wore read and contirnied, and the 
following elections were announced : — 
Member H. B. Guppy, Esq., M.B. Edin., E.N., Falmouth. 
Life Associate ; — Kev. C. Hebert, D.D., Anibleside. 
Also the presentation of the following works for the library 
“ Proceedings of the United States Geological and Geo- 
graphical Survey.” i'rom the same. 
“ The Writings of Swedenborg.” Rev. A. Clissold. Bev. T. M. Gorman, M.A. 
The following paper was then read in the author’s unavoidable absence by 
his son, Mr. H. Michell Whitley, C.E. : — 
THE SUPPOSED PALPDOLFTEIC IMPLEMENTS OF 
THE VALLEY OF THE AXE, By Nicholas Whitley, 
C.E. 
O NE of the most recent finds of the so-called stone imple-* 
ments of Palasolitbic man^^ — that at Broom, in the 
valley of the Axe, about three miles N.E. from Axmin- 
ster, is the most important, as showing their geological, and 
not their artificial, origin. As a large number of specimens 
have been found at this place similar to the so-called “’Axes^"’ 
from the drift of the valley of the Somme, and as a long and 
high section of the gravel-bed there is now in full working, 
the origin of this gravel may be read with a greater amount 
of certainty than that of former discoveries. 
The discovery at Broom came about in this manner. Waiting 
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