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Houlton Family are begun, and Mr. Anthony Story Maskelyne contributes 

 a long and most appreciative notice of The Troj^enell Cartutari/, recently 

 issued, in which he discusses Thomas Tropenell's pedigree and the events 

 of his life. There is also a note on the Wiltshire Society. 



Throughout these numbers of the Wiltshire Notes and Queries the 

 " Records of Erchfont and Stert " have been continued in Nos. 57—61 ; 

 " Quaker Burials," in Nos. 57— 62 ; AViltshire Wills proved at Canterbury, 

 Nos. 57—59; "The Chrysom Book of St. Thomas, New Sarum," Nos. 

 58—62; "A Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wilts," Nos. 60, 62; and 

 •' Peculiars of the Dean and Chapter of Sarum," Nos. 61 and 62. 



Report of the Marlborough College Natural History 

 Society for Year 1907. No. 56. Marlborough. 



1908. This number contains a paper by the President — E. Meyrick, 

 F.R.S.— pp. 24 — 27, " On the Practical Difficulties in obtaining Measure- 

 ments of Growth in Schoolboys." The same writer contributes "A 

 Handlist of the Flowering Plants of the District," pp. 31 — 48, a new 

 edition of the one issued in 1891, since when twenty-nine plants have 

 been added to the list. He also has " Notes on Christmas Customs," 

 pp. 49 — 51. The most notable paper in the number is that by H. N. Dixon, 

 F.L.S., on " The Moss Flora of the Greywethers," which is reprinted in 

 this number of the Magazine. Erica tetralix was found on Bedwyn 

 Common, Astragalus hypoglottis at Tidworth, and Campanula latifolia 

 near Martinsell. " Beeches, Savernake Forest," "London Hill (Marl- 

 borough) in Snow," and " Stockclose," are good photo illustrations. 

 " Whilst excavating the ground on the site of the new gymnasium the 

 workmen came upon a fragment of carved stone which appears to be 

 genuine Eoman work. . . . The carving represents the claws and 

 tail of an eagle, perched on a stone ball which probably formed the 

 summit of a pillar of some sort, there being a vertical hole through it, 

 by means of which it was doubtless pinned to the stone below." This 

 carving is now in the College Museum. 



FalseolithiC MicrolithS, by the Eev. H. G. O. Kendall. An in- 

 teresting note, with seven illustrations, in Man, vol. viii., pp. 103, 104, 

 July, 1908. Mr. Kendall defines " Microliths " as " tiny flakes or other 

 pieces of flint which have been trimmed or used by man at some part of 

 the edge, and in some cases even flaked over the outer face," and he 

 describes and illustrates several minute implements which he believes 

 show this secondary flaking and chipping, found by him iti situ in a layer 

 of fine sandy river silt in the Knowle gravel pit. He saj's "There can 

 be no doubt whatever that the latest Palaeolithic men at this site, and, 

 to some extent, those of an earlier period also, did some extraordinarily 

 fine work with these minute tools. What that work was we have yet to 

 find out." 



Wiltshire Houses. The following have appeared in the series of 

 notes on "Famous Buildings of Bath and District," by J. F. Meehan, in 

 The Beacon: — Corsham Court and the Methueris, Jan., 1905, p. 18; 



