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found, the skull being of the Neanderthal type. Some inter- 

 esting things have been found in kitchen-middens, in New 

 Zealand, especially fish hooks made of bone or greenstone. In 

 the Soudan have been found some ancient querns used for 

 grinding the quartz before the gold was washed out of it. 

 Measurements of 575 of the skulls below Hythe Church, Kent, 

 show that they are brachicephalic, the average length of the 

 males being iy'9 centimetres. Their date is probably 1200 

 1500 A.D. A pigmentation survey of school children in Scotland 

 has been successfully carried out, details of more than 500,000 

 children being given. An excess of dark hair characterises 

 Galloway, Glasgow, and the Highlands, there being most jet 

 black hair in the latter, whilst Orkney, Shetland, and other parts 

 are fair. Red hair occurs in excess only to the north of the 

 Grampians and east of the Caledonian Canal, where Tacitus also 

 locates it. In Glasgow and Dundee the men are mostly dark 

 and the women fair-haired. Experiments carried out in 

 Germany seem to show that the other senses are not increased 

 in delicacy in the blind a conclusion which is by no means in 

 accordance with our general belief. It is suggested, however, 

 that their blindness causes them to pay more attention to what 

 they perceive by other means. 



GENERAL. 



Amongst other subjects discussed at the meeting of the 

 Corresponding Societies' delegates at the British Association 

 at Dublin were the educational opportunities of such societies as 

 our own. Specialists in all branches of science are becoming so 

 technical that it is difficult for them to understand what is going 

 on in other branches than their own, and comparatively hopeless 

 for the amateur who is unacquainted with the terms used. Field 

 Clubs bring together people interested in the same things, and 

 in that way disseminate knowledge. Probably most of our 

 Members carry away some new scientific ideas from our meet- 

 ings, even those who are only superficially interested in our 



