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In October, 1901, he kindly sent a photograph of the Bilsdale 

 Founder's Stone with a copy of the inscription which, however, 

 could not be reproduced as no type of the kind, we believe, is in 

 existence ; however it reads " Condit ecclesiam Willelmus nobilis 

 istam intemeratse nomine sanctae virginis Hilda." The noble 

 William builds this church in the name of the chaste holy virgin 

 Hilda. This stone of dedication is well-known to antiquaries, 

 and is decidedly worth a visit. 



Regarding flint instruments he wrote in 1901 " thank you for 

 forwarding to me Mr. Auberon Herbert's letter to the Standard. 

 It was mentioned to me recently that Mr. Herbert had been 

 contributing to the Times some account of his finds of flint 

 implements (or flints which he supposes to be implements). I 

 forget what his contention is, although I think it was mentioned 

 to me. I think he holds that his flints are the work of either 

 men or apes. The Geologists' Association evidently holds the 

 chipping is due to the action of frost. I remember once walking 

 down the slopes of Shotover Hill, near Oxford, with Professor 

 Prestwich and his geological party. A member of the party 

 submitted to him a flint from which bits had been flaked off. 

 He pronounced it to be a case of frost-flaking. A member asked 

 him whether many of the so-called implements might not be 

 the work of frost. He answered to that extent frost might 

 simulate an implement, but an expert is usually able to pronounce 

 as to whether a flake has been struck off by an implement or is 

 due to frost-bite." Mr. Auberon Herbert evidently thinks he 

 knows better than the experts. Possibly he does. Let us hope 

 it may be so. Let him find a few skulls of his apes in his gravel 

 pita and even the Geologists' Association will listen to him. If 

 I obtain more information about these matters I will write to 



On the Boulder Question he wrote to us in 1903. " I was at 

 Horton-in-Ribblesdale last week with the Yorkshire Geological 

 Society, and took with me the interesting boulder specimen •which 

 I brought away from your cabinet. Kendall did not turn up, but 

 I submitted it to two good penologists. Dwerryhouse, Kendall's 

 assistant at the Yorkshire College, and J. II. Howarth, the 

 Secretary of the Boulder Committee of the Yorkshire Nats. 

 Union, and neither of them remembered to have seen anything 

 like it. Howarth begged to take it away with him for further 

 study, and to submit it to other penologists at the next meeting 

 of tbe Boulder Committee. He would much like, I think, to 

 place it in the collection of Yorkshire erratics, but will return it 



