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2. ARCH/ZOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY. 
THE most important event of the past quarter in Pre-historic Arche- 
ology is no doubt the opening of the Blackmore Museum, at Salis- 
bury. The value of this museum lies in the fact of its being a 
special collection of antiquities—characterizing a particular period — 
with illustrative modern examples. Mr. William Blackmore stated, 
at its opening, that the nucleus of this museum is the renowned 
“Squier and Davis” American collection, which was purchased by 
him in the year 1864. To this has been added a valuable collection 
of stone implements from the various caves and drift-deposits of 
England and the Continent, with a most interesting illustrative 
series of the modern stone implements at present used by various 
- savage races. Mr. Blackmore has munificently given this remark- 
able collection to his native town; he has also built a museum for 
its reception, and has provided for its future maintenance. Its 
management has been undertaken from year to year by the com- 
mittee of the Salisbury and South Wilts Museum, with the consent 
of the Blackmore Museum Trustees, in whom the property is vested. 
The trustees are three in number, namely, Mr. Blackmore, Dr. 
Blackmore (brother of the founder, and well known for his re- 
searches on the drift deposits and the flint implements contained in 
them), and Mr. EK. 'T. Stephens: the last two being also the honorary 
curators. Henceforth those who wish to learn the evidence which 
is known respecting the antiquity of man and collateral questions 
connected with it will find this museum a most valuable, and 
indeed indispensable, aid. It was opened in the beginning of Sep- 
tember with great éclat, the proceedings, which occupied two days, 
including the reading of papers, a conversazione, and the formal 
presentation at its opening by Mr. Blackmore. 
No account of the proceedings of the “ Congres Paléoethnolo- 
gique” seems to have been published ; but Mr. Boyd Dawkins has 
printed in the ‘ Intellectual Observer’ for October a paper read by 
him, entitled ‘‘Man and the Pleistocene Mammals of Great Britain.” 
It consists chiefly of an historical account of the various discoveries 
of flint implements in Great Britain, and especially of his own find- 
ings at Wookey Hole. He makes, however, one statement, which 
it may be useful to reproduce, as showing that these indications of 
man’s coexistence with extinct animals are not so wonderfully abun- 
dant as we seem, almost unconsciously, to have been brought to 
believe :—“ Out of the thirty caverns explored in Great Britain, 
the contents of which I have classified, fowr only have yielded 
human remains ; while out of forty river-deposits containing mam- 
malia, only three have furnished any trace of man. Had man been 
very abundant in those days, we might certainly have hoped to have 
