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of a Neolithic boat yet found and preserved to us in England. 

 It is still to be seen in our county, in a special shed built to pre- 

 serve it near Brigg station.' Does it not seem like Fate, that, 

 before Mr. Hunt's paper was published, this grand relic should 

 have left the county, and have gone to that very museum that 

 Mr. Hunt has forgotten all about ? 



STONE MEMORIALS AND JACOB. 



We learn in this paper that vast sheets of ice are known as 

 glaciers ! In a photograph of ' Early British Pottery,' there 

 are some pieces which are certainly not early British, nor late 

 British. The custom of raising mounds over the dead is by no 

 means confined to 'Egypt, India, America and Britain.' Sir 

 J. Lubbock is now Lord Avebury ; and what can anybody make 

 of ' Incompleteness of the circle in the Barrow, points to design. 

 Yet neither care nor trouble seem to have been spared in their 

 funeral rites.' The exploded idea of bodies in barrows being 

 buried ' facing the sun ' is trotted out. Some objects are 

 described which are certainly not pre-historic. We learn, with 

 surprise, that neolithic people did not eat fish. Didn't the 

 pygmies make fish-hooks ? We are correctly informed that 

 there are over 370 barrows in England ; seeing that Yorkshire 

 alone has yielded over double that number, and by we get to 

 the piffle at the end, about Stone and Bronze Ages in the Bible, 

 our patience is well-nigh exhausted. ' In the Beginning — no 

 date given ' ! ! 'There are Stone Memorials, Jacob,' etc., etc. 

 ' Bronze translated brass is mentioned forty-five times ; Iron, 

 four times,' and surely ' flint ' is mentioned too, though we 

 fail to see how this will help us in our ' researches.' 



PROF. G. S. WEST. 



We are pleased to hear that our contributor, Dr. G. S. West, 

 son of Mr. W. West, of Bradford, has been elected to the Chair 

 of Botany and Vegetable Physiology at the Birmingham 

 University. We trust that Prof. West may long live to carry 

 out the excellent work he is doing at Birmingham. 



The April Bradford Scientific Journal has an ' Introduction to the 

 Study of Grasses,' by Dr. W. G. Smith ; ' AnneUd Hunting Round Brad- 

 ford,' by the Rev. H. Friend ; ' Vegetation of Some Disused Quarries,' 

 by Mr. S. Margerison ; ' Bradford Spiders,' by Mr. \V. P. Winter ; and 

 ' The Stonechat in Yorkshire,' by Mr. E. P. Butterfield. In this last article 

 the author contends that the species is not nearly so common as one might 

 be led to believe from Nelson's ' Birds of Yorkshire.' 



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