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NATURE 
[June 18, 1914 
technical staff of the Geological Survey in 1883 at 
Ottawa, under Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn. Filled with 
energy and enthusiasm for the science of geology, he 
entered the field in the province of Quebec, and later 
on worked hard at the nickel- and copper-bearing 
deposits of the Sudbury region in Ontario. In the 
Cobalt silver-mining areas of Ontario, throughout the 
Lake Timiskaming areas of crystalline rocks, in the 
iron-ore region of Lake Timagami, as well as in the 
gold-bearing areas of the Porcupine district on the 
Montreal River, and in the Haliburton and Bancroft 
region of southern Ontario, throughout the Hastings 
series, besides the special district of Dungannon, where 
corundum deposits are found, Dr. Barlow was the 
worker who, with unceasing energy and devotion to 
the solution of the difficult problems presented in these 
various fields, characterising nearly as many petro- 
graphical provinces, has left a record of noteworthy 
achievement to the science. At the March (1914) 
meeting of the Canadian Mining Institute, held in 
Montreal, he was the retiring president, and he did 
much for the institute and the mining fraternity to 
bring about close relations between the thorough-going 
geologist and the practical mining engineer. 
THE archeological section of the Victoria Museum, 
Ottawa, the national museum of Canada, contains a 
valuable collection from the Thompson River region 
in the southern interior of British Columbia. In 
1897, with the aid of funds contributed by Mr. 
Morris K. Jesup, of New York, Mr. Harlan I. Smith 
was enabled to make important discoveries in this 
little known region. The material thus obtained, 
which is of considerable anthropological value, has 
now been catalogued and described by Mr. Smith in 
Memoir No. 1290 of the Geological Survey of Canada. 
The catalogue is provided with a good series of 
illustrations, and is an important contribution to the 
ethnology of North America. 
Dr. Asupy, Director of the British School at Rome, 
has recently delivered a lecture before the Malta 
Historical and Scientific Society on recent discoveries 
in the island. A large Roman villa has now been 
thoroughly examined, which shows rooms grouped 
round a central peristyle, with fluted columns of Malta 
stone, and an underground water channel leading 
from the great cistern of Medewict, which was ex- 
cavated in 1881. The problem of the connection of 
the two has not, however, been determined. Opposite 
the villa is the Ghar Dalam cave, the exploration 
of which has been resumed. On the upper layer 
of earth pottery, both prehistoric and Punic, was dis- 
covered, mixed with the smaller bones of hippopotami 
and other animals, showing that the stratification 
had been destroyed probably by the percolation of 
water through the cave, which is not very far below 
the surface, and is even now full of moisture. These 
animals lived in the island while it formed part of a 
larger continent, and their bones were probably 
washed into the cave in their present state of disorder 
when the continent was submerged, 
Mr. J. P. Busus-Fox reported 
the Society of Antiquaries 
NO. 2329, VOL. 93] 
at the last meeting 
of the results of 
excavations at Hengistbury Head, lying east 
of Bournemouth, and forming the south side of 
Christchurch Harbour. The place was occupied from 
Neolithic times, and interments supplied Bronze age 
pottery, an incense cup, gold, amber, and _ bronze ° 
articles. In England it had hitherto been extremely 
difficult to fill in the gap between the end of the 
Bronze age and the period immediately preceding 
the Roman occupation; but the discovery at Hengist- 
bury Head of a complete series of pottery linking 
up with the Hallstatt and La Téne periods is of 
great value. Perhaps the most interesting discovery 
was of more than 4000 gold, silver, and bronze coins, 
most of them British, and a large number of new 
types. The coinage of Gaul and Britain was largely 
copied from Greek originals, principally a coin of 
Philip of Macedon, about the middle of the fourth 
century B.c. The head and chariot on this coin had 
become so degraded by copying that the original 
pattern had been entirely forgotten. Most of the 
Hengistbury coins belong to the last stage of this 
type, and many of them are covered with little more 
than dots and lines. With them were associated 
Roman coins dating as late as the middle of the 
second century A.D. As many of the British examples 
were in mint condition, this part of the country had 
evidently been little affected by the Roman occupa- 
tion of more than a century before. 
Mr. Crarence B, Moore records in vol. xvi. of the 
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phil- 
adelphia, 1913, under the title of ‘‘Some Aboriginal 
Sites in Louisiana and in Arkansas,” the results of 
his archzological investigations of 1912-13. He 
covered ground previously unexplored by archzeologists, 
but unfortunately the finds were very meagre and on 
the whole uninteresting, partly because’ the area in 
question is subject to floodings, and therefore the 
destruction or the impairment of mounds is not per- 
missible. Nevertheless, the district had to be inves- 
tigated in order to complete the scheme which Mr. 
Moore has imposed on himself, despite the fact that 
he knew he would be unlikely to get many specimens. 
It is this attitude of mind, the patient accumulation 
of data irrespective of their intrinsic worth and dis- 
regard of sensational results, that gives Mr. Moore a 
distinguished place among archzeologists. Many of 
the mounds are quadrangular, with the sides facing 
the cardinal points, frequently they are about 15-20 ft. 
in height, and have a square flat summit, sometimes 
too ft. or more in diameter. In addition to the usual 
wealth of excellent figures of pottery, etc., there are 
two coloured plates, one of a large effigy-pipe of 
earthenware, the other of irregular earthenware objects 
of unknown significance. Those that are biconical 
may have been used in the ‘“‘hand-game,” a gambling 
game universally spread over North America, possibly 
some of the other objects may have been used for 
similar purposes; at present they remain a mystery. 
The memoir closes with a short report on a collection 
of crania and bones by Dr. A. Hrdlitka. The skulls 
were slightly deformed artificially, and ‘‘are remark- 
ably like the less narrow type of crania among the 
Siouan people and the more southern Iroquois.” 
