president's address. Ixv. 



the threads in place, bone-shuttles, weaving-combs, and bone- 

 needles for sewing. They probably worked with the lathe, as 

 may he inferred by the numerous chucks of Kimmeridge-shale, 

 also lathe-turned vessels of earthenware. Crucibles and remains 

 of smiths' bellows point to smelting. They used rings of 

 jet, amber, glass, and bronze, bracelets of bronze and Kimmeridge- 

 shale, glass-beads, bronze-safety-pins, and split-ring-brooches, with 

 bone-links similar to those found in Victoria Cave in Yorkshire, 

 There are also bone amulets. Their huts were round and made of 

 wattle. They grew wheat, and had sheep, cattle, Bos longifrons, 

 pigs, horses, and dogs. They ground their corn in querns, and 

 worked their food by putting hot stones into their pots filled with 

 cold water. They rode or drove their horses with iron snaffle-bits, 

 their weapons of war were daggers, halberts, billhooks, and 

 sling-stones, vast numbers of which have been found made of clay, 

 both burnt and unburnt. Mr, Boyd Dawkins considers that the 

 fragment of a long human skull, with a low forehead and strong 

 frontal sinuses, implies that some of the inhabitants belonged to 

 the long-headed section of the Britons. In his summary he says 

 the pottery is distinctly of southern derivation and of the late 

 Celtic type, and belongs to the late period of the Iron age, before 

 the Roman influence had fully penetrated into Britain. The split- 

 ring fibula and the bone-links are identical with forms of Romano- 

 British type. The absence of Roman pottery and of coins implies 

 that the Roman civilization had not arrived in the Isle of Glaston- 

 bury. On a comparison with the late Celtic remains found by 

 General Pitt-Rivers at Mount Caburn, near Lewes, it is found that 

 the iron-tools and weapons, the earthenware sling-stones, the pottery, 

 and various other articles, as well as the wattle-work, are practically 

 the same and belong therefore to the same age. 



The extinction of wild animals is becoming daily a question of 

 the greatest importance, and demands the co-operation and elTorts 

 of naturalists to prevent their annihilation. Although valuable 

 both for food and commerce they are relentlessly pursued and 

 massacred for momentary gain. The most remarkable instance is 



