Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-11-15
Prehistoric Implements.
Londnn Telegranh

London Telegraph,
 Lord Derby has just presented to the Liverpool Free Museum very valuable collection or prehistoric implements, illustrating the stone and bronze periods of Europe and America. The whole series of 425 specimens. the general collection containing 378 examples, which is supple mented by forty-se very fine Neolithic scandinavian weapons of marvellous workmanship The Palaeolithic epoch contains specimens from many English localities, including Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, etc, as well as specimens from Abbeville, the original locality described by M. Boucher de Perthes, who discovered, as 1t were, in Europe the great antiquity of these weapons and their association in the gravel pits with the remains of the extinct mammoth, woolly rhinoceros and other prehistoric animals, thus carrying mans existence back to the remote ages little dreamt of before investigation of the valley of the Somme were made. The col lection also contains implements from the ''surface'' gravels of Surrey, Newhaven, and other well-known English localities.
 It is, however. in the Neolithic or later epoch specimens that the collection is so rich. There are enagniicent axes or wedges in polished flint from Denmark with keen edges, which, in skillful hands-such as the Scandinavian workmen of the period were would easily demolish trees and form them into any primitive shape required. Then there are gouges in flint. scrapers, cores, and some of the remarkable sacrificlal knives or lances in flint, nearly a foot ln length, made out of blocks of flint, fashion ed, sharpened, denteled and serrated in such manner as to make one pause at such workmanship and ask, Gan man in his primitive state, with only another stone, | have made sxch marvellous weapons?" But such is really fact-the art is entirely lost, and in this the enlightened nineteenth century, with every variety of tool known, the nature of flint and its fracture perfect ly understood. there does not exist a being who could make one of these sacrificial flint knives with it's parallel hakings and serrated handles
 The collection contains also celts in basalt from different parts of Ireland, a large series of celts in their original horn hafts from the Swiss lake dwellings, celts from France, many from the collection of the late French savant, the Marquis de Vibraye; a series of American wedges some grooved, as well as very fine lot oi flint arrow heads from nearly every part of the world. Savage life ofmore modern date is not omitted in the shape of the meri-meris from New Zealand, as well as axes in quartz from the newly explored regions of Paqua land. The Bronze epoef is also represented by swords, palstaves knives and large series of pins and othel objects of personal adornment from tht lakes of Neuchatel Morigen, etc.
 A few casts are added of the extraordi nary flint weapons in the collection O Lord Northesk, one being the figure of man in flint about l foot long, the onl. known instance of man having been i'm itated in flint in prehistoric times. Th' collection, it will be seen, is really repre- sentative, and one from which any studen can study the eyergrowing popular subiec of mans antiquity. It has arrived safel. at Liverpool, and is now being prepared for exhibition by MT. T. J. Moor, tn
 Curator of the Free Museum. The Rev H. H. Higgins, so well known in tn psychological world, lectured upon it a the Philosophical institute of Liyerpoo on the 20th ult., taking ''the broad question s, of the value of such remains as indieatin the antiquity of the human race" for hi subject.