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lithic Implements—large and heavy examples "were published
in 1888 (Ibid. II., 67, 97). In the same volume (p. 4) appear his
figure and description of the stone "pestle" from Epping Forest.
In 1898 he described and figured an implement made from a
stag's antler found at Wormingford (Ibid. X., 310), this paper
having called forth a communication on the same subject by
Mr. Edward Lovett (Ibid. 351). Those who wish to form an
appreciation of Mr. Worthington Smith from his humorous
side will do well to peruse his "Lepores Palaeolithici," read in
1884 and published in 1888 (Essex Naturalist II., 7). Among
other relics of early human workmanship referred to in our
publications attention may be called to Mr. H. Corder's paper
on "Stone Implements from the Neighbourhood of Chelmsford"
(Trans. II., 29), the paper on two pre-historic weapons from near
Epping (Essex Naturalist VIII., 162), Mr. Mothersole's
"Notes on some Relics of early Man in the Neighbourhood of
Chelmsford" (Ibid. X., 305 and Mr. J. P. Johnson's paper on
"Palaeolithic Implements from tho low-level Drift of the
Thames Valley, chiefly from Ilford and Grays" (Ibid XII., 52),
this last paper having been already referred to under our
Palaeontological contributions. Mr. Laver's note on the discovery
of Celtic urns at Colchester (Essex Naturalist III., 116) brings
us down to a later period.
The human skeleton found during the excavations at the
Tilbury Docks, formed the subject of a paper read before the
Royal Society by Sir Richard Owen in 1883, and afterwards
published as a separate work (Van Voorst, August, 1884). The
distinguished author, who was one of our Hon. Members, had
come to the conclusion that this skeleton was of Palaeolithic age,
but at a meeting of the Club held on February 23rd, 1884, Mr.
T. V. Holmes and others expressed their belief that the evidence
of extreme antiquity was unsatisfactory (Proc. IV., lxxviii.) and
a meeting of the Club, in conjunction with the Geologists' Asso-
ciation, was held at Tilbury on May 17th of the same year (Ibid
xcviii.) In a paper by Mr. Holmes, published by us in 1884
(Trans. IV., 135), the "antiquissimist" view (to use Mr.
Spurrell's expression) of the skeleton was disposed of. The
value of geological judgment in connection with archaeological
reasoning is well brought out in other papers communicated to
Club, such as Mr. Goodchild's "Notes upon some Mounds near
the Estuary of the Thames" (Essex Naturalist I., 210) and