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Acc. 23863. --- Prof. H. W. Haynes, #239 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. --- Six rude pieces of quartz (implements ?), from Lisbon, Dublin and Franconia, New Hampshire and North Quincy, Massachusetts;  and 14 flint implements (paleolithic) from Egypt.  These specimens (20 in number) are loaned to the Museum for one year.

These implements show a civilisation lying entirely anterior to the much boasted antique civilisation of Egypt.  The tail-end of it;  the last remaining use of stone as an implement, was found by Mr. Petrie, belonging to the 5th and 6th Dynasties and dating from [[strikethrough]] way back, from [[/strikethrough]] 3,000 or 4.000 B.C.  [[strikethrough]] That, [[/strikethrough]]  ^[[His discovery,]] however, showed the use of stone in much the same way as the Indians of North America used it one hundred ^[[or two]] years ago.  These discoveries of Prof. Haynes go back ^[[to the paleolithic age]] to the [[strikethrough]] earliest and first [[/strikethrough]] beginnings of the use of stone implements ^[[in Egypt.  They]] were found by him [[strikethrough]] in the neighborhood of the great pyramids [[/strikethrough]] ^[[in the winter of 1877 at Luxor the site of ancient Thebes]] having been washed out by the streams or