Geological Societ// find .1. .1. A.S. Meetiinjs. — Uphaiti. 255 
Account of the Discovery of a CJdpped Chert Implement in undia- 
tnrbed Glacial Gravel near Steubenville, Ohio. G. F. Wright, Oberlin, 
Ohio. This new evidence of Glacial man consisted of a chert implement 
1-^4 inches long and three-fourths of an inch wide, which was found by 
Mr. Sam Huston, of Steubenville, Ohio, in a terrace of glacial gravel 
and sand of the Ohio river valley at Brilliant, in southeastern Ohio, 
about eight miles below Steubenville. Mr. Huston is a graduate of the 
scientific department of Washington and Jefferson College, and for 
twenty-five years has been the county surveyor of Jefferson county, 
Ohio, being thus perfectly conversant with all the natural features of 
the region, and especially with the gravel deposits which are extensively 
used in road-making. He has made paleontological collections for 
Profs. Cope and Scudder, and so is well known to scientific men. 
The implement was discovered by Mr. Huston x>roje(;ting from the 
freshly exposed face of an excavation in the terrace gravel about eight 
feet below the surface and about, six'ty feet above the Ohio river, and 
wafe taken out with his own hands. The gravel was fine and the bed- 
ding and cross-bedding above and below were perfectly distinct and un- 
disturbed, showing that the implement is as old as the deposition of the 
gravel. 
Prof. Wright has visited the place with Mr. Huston and says that no 
one will question that this terrace gravel is of approximately the same 
age as the gravels at Trenton, N. J., and in the valley of the Somme in 
France, where similar discoveries have been made. These terrace de- 
posits belong to the Champlain epoch of Dana and were formed near 
the close of the Glacial period. There is nothing strange. Prof. Wright 
said, in finding such evidence of men contemporary with the Ice age, for 
it is abundant in France and southern England; while Dr. Abbott's 
numerous discoveries at Trenton, N. J., are of the same age. It is es- 
pecially significant, however, at the present time, because of recent at- 
tempts to challenge all the past reported discoveries in this country. It 
has thus great cumulative force. This is now the third locality in Ohio 
where similar discoveries of the implements of Glacial men have been 
made and well attested by competent observers: the other two being at 
Madisonville by Dr. C. L. Metz, and Newcomerstown by W-. C. Mills. 
Such implements, and artificially chijjped fragments from their manufac- 
ture, have been also found by Miss Franc E. Babbitt in the glacial 
gravel of the Mississippi river at Little Falls, Minn., and by Mr. J. B. 
Tyrrell of the C'anadian Geological Survey in a beach dejjosit of the gla- 
cial lake Agassiz in Manit()})a. Thus more and more clearly it becomes 
evident that the study of the Glacial period is an essential preliminary 
to the study of human history. 
In the ensuing discussion Prof. F. W. Putnam said that the patina 
Ob this implement certainly indicates great age and that its type, though 
in use up to later times, is a most ancient type which has been kept in 
use because it was permanently adapted to the wants of savage men. 
Mr. F. L. Gushing said that the implement is a knife of the oldest 
pattern' and that not only is it beyond (juestion a finished implement. 
