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[Makch 9, 1905 



few to whom research at the high Gnifetti labor- 

 atory would be impossible, but who could do solid 

 work at a somewhat lower level provided that the life 

 was not too rough, and especially if they had no fear 

 of being hampered by indigestion caused by too rude 

 or monotonous a diet. For these especially is the 

 Col d'Olen Laboratory intended; and unless things 

 have altered sadly in the last few years, such need 

 have no fear for their stomachs. I still have a vivid 

 recollection of a stay at the inn at Col d'Olen during 

 which the efforts of a talented cook produced results 

 which would have satisfied tastes of a far higher 

 epicurean level than my own. 



The new laboratory, like the old, is to be carried 

 out as an international institution. It received warm 

 support from the International Physiological Congress 

 at Turin in 1901, and again at Brussels this year. 

 After the plan of the Stazione Zoologica at Naples, its 

 maintenance is to be provided by subsidies which will 

 give the right to occupy working places. Already the 

 Italian Ministry of Instruction has secured accom- 



be on a safe basis, and especially that an annual in- 

 come should be provided sufficient to ensure at the 

 laboratory adequate service and assistance, which, as 

 might be expected from the circumstances, have to be 

 well paid. The existence of such a laboratory offers 

 unusual opportunities for investigation, not only to 

 those who are interested in the general problems of 

 physiology, of meteorology, and of the physics of the 

 earth, but also to the perhaps larger class who desire 

 a wider and more exact knowledge of the manifold 

 fascinating phenomena of the High Alps. Is it too 

 much to hope that Prof. Mosso will find no great 

 difficulty in obtaining the further funds which he 

 needs? " M. Foster. 



NEOLITHIC DEPOSITS IN THE NORTH-EAST 



OF IRELAND. 

 'X* HE recent changes of level in the north-east of 

 -'■ Ireland attracted a considerable amount of public 

 interest during the year 1903, in consequence of the 





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modation for two investigators, the Italian Alpine 

 Club for one, and Ihe German Government for two. 

 M. Solvay, who has otherwise been a lavish bene- 

 factor to the whole enterprise, has taken two places 

 for Belgium, and, through the generosity of Dr. 

 Ludwig Mond, our own Royal Society has the right 

 of nominating two investigators. The undertaking, 

 therefore, is well on the way to success ; but much 

 remains yet to be done. Prof. Mosso informs me 

 that though he has obtained 70,000 lire, he still 

 '"<rN some 50,000 lire in order that everything should 



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lawsuit, known as the " Gold Ornaments Case " 

 C'^ttorney-General v. the Trustees of the British 

 Museum). A golden boat, collar, and other objects 

 were found in ploughing at Broighter, on the exten- 

 sive flat that stretches around Limavady Jun<tion in 

 county Londonderry. They were buried eighteen 

 inches deep in stiff clay soil, at a spot which is four 

 feet above ordinary high-water mark. The British 

 Mu.seum authorities rested their claim to the retention 

 of the objects in part on the theory that the ornaments 

 in question constituted a votive offering, which was 



