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MANCHESTER Literary and Philosophical Society, Oct. 20.—Edward Schunck, F.R.S., president, in the chair.—E. W. Binney, F.R.S., stated that he had been so fortunate as to find a specimen of Stigmaria which he exhibited to the Society, from the bullion coal at Clough Head, ear Burnley, having t]ie medulla perfectly preserved.—Mr. R. D. Darbishire, F.G.S., exhibited and described the Palæolithic (French and English drift) implements collected for the soirée at the Owens College.—Prof. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., brought before the notice of the Society the conditions under which the palæolithic implements are found in the river-strata and in the caves, in association with the extinct mammalia, such as the mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. Although the number of flint implements from the river-strata in various collections was very great, yet it is small when viewed in connection with the enormous quantity of gravel removed in their discovery. They are not evenly distributed, but cluster round certain spots. Their discovery in India along with the extinct mammalia proves that man was living, both in Europe and in Southern Asia from the Ganges to Ceylon, in the same rude uncivilised state, at the same time in the life-history of the earth. He also called attention to the art of the hunters of the reindeer and mammoth in the south of France, Belgium, and Switzerland, an art eminently realistic, and by no means despicable; and he inferred from their art and implements and the associated animals that they may be represented at the present day by the Eskimos.—On a colorimetric method of determining iron in waters, by Mr. Thomas Carnelly, B.Sc.; communicated by Prof. H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 11, 19–20 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/011019b0
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