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indeed, has been noted by that trustworthy antiquary the 

 Rev. Joseph Hunter. At one of the meetings of the 

 Archgeological Institute, in 1850, he brought forward a fac- 

 simile of an old warrant which he had discovered in the 

 Record Office, in which the date (1325) is expressed in one 

 part in Roman and in another Arabic numerals. It is a war- 

 rant from Hugh le Dispenser to Bonifez de Peruche and his 

 partners, merchants of a company, to pay forty pounds. On 

 the face of it, as executed by the English Chancellor, it is 

 dated '' the XIX° year" of Edward II. It bears, however, 

 the endorsement of the Italian merchant on the back, and 

 he has endorsed it February, 1325, in Arabic figures. I 

 do not know that I could conclude with a better illustration 

 of the probability of the account, which I have adopted 

 from M. Chasles and M. Martin, of .the Arabic numerals 

 having come to Europe from India, not first by means of 

 the Moors, but through the Italians, since we find an ordi- 

 nary Italian merchant using them in an ordinary business 

 transaction, at least two centuries before their common use 

 in English bookkeeping and commerce. 



"Notes on the Victoria Cave, Settle," by William 

 Brockbank, F.G.S. 



The discoveries of the antiquities and animal remains in 

 the Victoria Cave have been described to the Society.by Mr. 

 Boyd Dawkins, and are very fully set forth by Mr. R. Tid- 

 deman, F.G.S., in the Geological Magazine for January, 

 1873 (Vol. X., No. 1). 



Mr. Tiddeman's view^s are shortly as follows. (1) He 

 gives a section of the cave, shewing a cavern in the face of 

 a limestone cliff, the floor of which is cov^ered thickly 

 over with stratified deposits, sloping inwards from the 

 entrance, and against the edges of which rests a talus of 

 Breccia, having below it a stratum of glacial drift clay with 

 boulders. The latter he shews as just occurring above the 



