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suitable for a railway. About a quarter of the whole of 

 India had been mapped in 1916 by the survey then being 

 proceeded with, but this was stopped by the necessities of 

 the war, and the rest must wait till its conclusion. The 

 Australian transcontinental railway is now practically com- 

 pleted, and runs from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia to 

 Port Augusta in S. Australia, a distance of about 1,050 miles. 

 It opens out a large tract of country and will shorten the 

 time of the journey from England to the Eastern parts of 

 Australia by two or three days. 



ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY. 



The completion of the second and concluding volume on 

 the excavations at Glastonbury is an event upon which 

 Mr. St. George Gray, who has so often been associated with 

 our Club, and his co-editor, Dr. Bulleid, are to be congratu- 

 lated. It forms one of the most full and interesting accounts 

 that have been published in this country of a prehistoric 

 people, as deduced from the various implements and other 

 relics which have been found in and about their dwellings, 

 and from the remains of the dwellings themselves. The 

 3rd report of the Committee for the exploration of the Irish 

 caves deals with the Castlepook cave, Co. Cork, which yielded 

 more than 30,000 bones and teeth, but no evidence of man's 

 habitation. Among these are the remains of the cave hyaena 

 and also of the lemming, which at the present day occurs 

 in such vast numbers in Scandinavia, as well as of a new 

 species of lemming. Bones of bear, reindeer, and mammoth 

 were also found. A mammoth skeleton, associated with 

 worked flints, was found in the course of military excavations 

 near Bapaume. A human skeleton of Anglo-Saxon date, 

 accompanied by a long sword, a large spear, and a small 

 one all of iron, w r as unearthed at Horncastle recently. Swords 

 of this period are very rarely found in burials, and this one 

 has found a resting place in the Hull Museum. Attention 



