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Mr. Holmes afterwards embodied his observations on ancient wooden
water-pipes in a paper which will be printed in the Essex Naturalist.
Mr. J. Chalkley Gould exhibited some pottery and coins from the
Romano-British Settlement at Chigwell, Essex, which he had obtained in
continuation of the series of relics from that spot already exhibited in the
Epping Forest Museum. Mr. Gould made some remarks on these
specimens which are given in the "Museum Note" in the present part
(ante pp. 238-40.)
The President said that they were all much indebted to Mr. Gould for the
persistence and success with which he was watching the excavations at
Chigwell. He also expressed his satisfaction at finding Mr. Gould inclined to
deposit all the specimens in the Club's Museum at Chingford. It so
commonly happened that relics of the kind got dispersed in private hands,
and the evidence which they might afford was practically lost. All such
objects should be carefully preserved, registered, and brought, as it were, to a
focus in some local Museum.
The President exhibited and presented two or three fashioned flakes from
Sherringham, Norfolk. He had found and kept these, not for any intrinsic
value, but he was unaware whether worked flints had hitherto been found at
Sherringham, and therefore it would be well to preserve these.
The Secretary said that Mr. Seton-Karr had recently sent to him a
set of Stone Implements of Palaeolithic type, found by himself in Somali-
land, Eastern Africa, with a request that the Club should select six
specimens for the Museum and distribute the remainder among various
English and Continental Museums named by Mr. Karr. The Secretary
exhibited the whole set of 38 implements. Mr. Seton-Karr had described his
specimens in Journ. Antli. Inst., vol. xxv. (1896) p. 172, pl. xix.-xxi. Brit.
Assoc. Rep., 1895, p. 824. And Sir John Evans had more recently (Proc. Royal
Society, vol. lx. (1896) p. 19) called attention to this subject (see also Evans'
Ancient Stone Implements, 2nd Ed. (1897) p. 653.) Sir John remarked on the
identity of form of the implements with those found in the Pleistocene deposits
of North-western Europe and elsewhere.
Mr. Cole also exhibited a collection of various stone implements previously
presented to the Museum by Mr. Seton-Karr.
Mr. F. W. Reader made some extended remarks on these specimens
which will be embodied in a "Museum Note" in a future part of the E. N.,
and moved that a vote of thanks be sent to Mr. Seton-Karr for those welcome
contributions, which had so greatly enriched the Club's collections.
Mr. Charles H. Read, F.S.A., remarked that these implements certainly-
very closely resembled the Palaeolithic types found in Britain and on the
Continent, but he urged caution in assuming, that they were actually of
Palaeolithic age. So far as he knew, there was absolutely no geological
evidence at present forthcoming upon which to base accurate conclusions as to
the age of these implements.
The vote of thanks to Mr. Seton-Karr was carried unanimously.
Mr. George Massee, F.L.S., communicated a note on the occurrence in
Epping Forest of Amanita citrina, a species new to Britain. And he also sent
for the Museum an original coloured drawing of the species (Mr. Massee's
note appeared in the last part, ante p. 129,)