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It would be unjust of me to conclude this record without acknowledging 
my indebtedness to the many friends who have kindly helped me in what 
has proved no easy task. I must specially mention Mr. W. L. H. Duckworth ; 
Dr. Woodward (Brit. Museum); Mr. W. shone; Mr, T. Mellard Read; the 
President (Mr. J. D. Siddall) ; Dr. Stolterfoth; and Mr, Michael Johnson ; 
and more especially the generous donor of the specimen (Mr. Morton 
Browne), who also offered every facility for investigating the deposit. Like 
most discoveries of its kind, it has favoured controversial opinions, but I must 
acknowledge that I profited, not a little, by them. I sincerely trust, however, 
now that the facts of the find are fully stated, we may form reliable con- | 
clusions as to the age of the individual, the discovery of whose remains is 
of so great interest both geologically and anatomically. 
Fuly, 1900, 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
Fig, 1—View of Section of the Boulder-Clay, looking due West. 
A—The pebble bed ; its course still further indicated by the right 
hand of the figure resting upon a pebble. 
B—Old river bed. 
C—Anchor Works, 
The arrow points to the exact spot in the excavated clay where 
the skull was found; the pebble immediately below it 
being zz situ. The skull of Bos longifrons was also found 
there. 
D—Section of ‘worked clay ”’ in course of preparation for brick 
making, from which a number of the bones were subse- 
quently recovered. 
Fig. 2,.—Front view of skull showing character of dentition, &c, 
Fig. 3.—Profile of skull showing the absence of the Ist molar, which was 
lost during the life of the individual. 


BOTANICAL NOTES—By Mr. A. E. GOODMAN. 
Several plants of Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) collected at Delamere 
in June, 1899, and afterwards kept in a Saucer inside a Wardian fern case, 
poe proliferous, the young plants developing from the lamina of old 
eaves. 
Growing amongst the gravel on a garden walk in a suburb of Chester, 
a seedling plant of the date palm (Phenix dactylifera L.) was found at the 
end of August. The stone, casually dropped, had germinated in the open, 
which, in our climate, is remarkable, inasmuch as the seeds can only be 
Bere to germinate, ordinarily, under the influence of considerable artificial 
eat, 


A Simple and Efficient Photo-micrographic Camera— 


The apparatus as used by the lecturer is shown in Fig. 1 on the plate 
opposite the following page, and is constructed on the lines of that used by 
Dr. Henri Van Heurck, the eminent microscopist. It is simple in con- 
struction, as may be gathered from the fact that it is home-made, As to its 
efficiency the reproductions of photo-micrographs taken with it must bear 
witness. 
The camera is nothing more than an oblong box firmly mounted on four 
spreading wooden legs. The base of the box is provided with an aperture 
