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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 
This extraordinary work, as we have already mentioned 
in these columns, is being issued in twenty parts at 7/6 net, by 
Grant Richards, Ltd. Part XVI. is before us, and, as in the 
previous sections, the letterpress is by Charles Stonham, C.M.G., 
F.Z.S., etc., the illustrations being by Lilian N. Medland, 
F.Z.S. Part XVI. contains descriptions of the Curlew Sand- 
piper, Purple Sandpiper, Knot, Sanderling, the Ruff and 
Reeve, Common Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Green Sand- 
piper, Redshank, Spotted Redshank, Bar-tailed Godwit, 
Black-tailed Godwit, Common Curlew, and Whimbrel. The 
illustrations, etc., are quite up to the standard of previous 
parts. 
INGLEBOROUGH. 
At the astonishingly low price of fourpence, the Geological 
Survey Office has recently published an admirable ‘ Guide to 
the Geological Model of Ingleborough and District,’ which is now 
in the Jermyn Street Museum. The pamphlet is written by Dr. 
Aubrey Strachan, under whose guidance the model, made by 
Mr. J. F. Stackhouse, has been geologically coloured. Upon 
it are shewn the geological formations, faults, caves, swallow 
holes, underground water-courses, contour lines, glacial strie, 
etc. With the guide is a reproduction ofa photograph of the 
model, and also a coloured plate shewing the various geological 
features. This handbook is the cheapest publication we have 
yet seen from the Geological Survey Office, and it should have 
a large sale. [Every visitor to Ingleborough will certainly find 
it useful. 
THE ARRIVAL OF MAN IN BRITAIN. 
Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins favours us with a copy of the Huxley 
Memorial Lecture which he delivered before the Royal An- 
thropological Institute recently, the subject being ‘ The Arrival 
of Man in Britain in the Pleistocene Age. A valuable part of 
the address is the classification of the various remains of 
extinct mammalia which occur in different parts of Britain. 
He sees ‘no evidence of Man in Eocene, Miocene, or Pliocene 
Periods. He will not admit. that Eoliths are the work of 
human hands. The range of the river drift men in England has 
been considerably extended northward on the strength of a 
single specimen found at Huntow, near Bridlington, an illus- 
tration of which is given. Personally, we should like a little 
more evidence than this single specimen affords. As regards 
the antiquity of man in Britain, Prof. Dawkins concludes, 
“the more minutely I examine the events that have taken 
place since man appeared on the earth, the more profoundly am 
I impressed with the vastness of his antiquity, and with the 
futility of any attempt to compute it in terms of years.’ 
191 Feb. 1. 
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