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that the implement belonging to her was a stone Hammer-head, 

 and although it was found in the neitjhbourhood she was not 

 certain that it came from the Skitts Hill pits. As I was so lucky 

 as to be able to borrow the hammer-head in order to photograph 

 it, I am able to give the accompanying illustration (Fig. i-) 

 The length is three inches and the largest diameter two inches^ 

 while the perforation measures three-quarters of an inch across. 

 A transverse section at any point would practically yield a circle. 

 The material is red crystalline quartzite, characteristic of the 

 Thames Basin. — Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S., Hanwell. 



MISCELLANEA. 



Personal. — His ^lajesty has honoured ^Ir. F. W. Rudler 

 by conferring upon him tlie decoration of Companion of the 

 Imperial Service Order ''For Faithful Service." The I.S.O. 

 was created at the Coronation to mark the Sovereign's appre- 

 ciation of long and meritorious w*ork on the part of members of 

 the Imperial Civil Service. All members of the Club will 

 rejoice that our President's valuable services to the State and to 

 Science, as Curator oi the Museum of Practical Geology, and in 

 many other ways, should have received recognition by the King. 



We are also pleased to note that Mr. Wortliington Smith 

 has received a Civil List Pension of /5c for his services to 

 Botany and Archaeology ; and that Dr. M. C. Cooke has been 

 awarded the Gold ]Medal of the Linnean Society. Both these 

 gentlemen have long been highly esteemed Honorary [Members 

 of the Club. 



Influence of Environment. — The Irish Natiiyalist is 

 responsible for the following, concerning a " Multinucleate 

 Syncytium '" well-known and valued by our members : — 



•• Professor Poulton, ua opening the discussion on natural selection and 

 miniicn,- in Section D (Brit. Association Meeting, Belfast), gave an excellent 

 practical illustration of the rapidity with which response of the organism to its 

 en\Tronment may take place. The learned speaker had not been a week amid 

 Hibernian surroundings when, in discussing the relative numbers of mmiickers 

 and mimicked in a particular case, he stated that ' only one out of ever)- thousand 

 ants was a spider.' " 



