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sugar, and only a small resinous residue. There was a large 
quantity of soluble proteid or enzyme, not much mucilage, 
no oxalate of calcium, and some starch in the fibre (51-4 per 
cent.) non-extractable by boiling dilute acid. The ash amounted 
to 8-I per cent., and contained 41-9 per cent. soluble salts, 
4-7 silica,:'22 lame; ) 5-2) magnesia, 7-5 22707, 1350? sandes 
chlorine ; there was no soluble carbonate, and only a little in- 
soluble carbonate. The latter facts, together with the distinctive 
proteid reactions, and the large amounts of phosphate and 
sulphate indicate an extraordinary fixity and stability of the 
-albumenoids. Hence the want of plasticity aforesaid, the 
absence of hybridity, the feebleness of floral colouration—in 
short, the incomplete deassimilation.—P. QO. KEEGAN, Patterdale. 
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COLEOPTERA. 
Salpingus zxratus Muls.: an Addition to the County 
List.—On the 29th June I found a specimen of this beetle, 
under the bark of a felled oak in Little Park, near Great Hough- 
ton, about five miles from Barnsley. Although three other 
species belonging to this genus have been recorded from York- 
shire localities, this is the only one as yet recorded from the 
Barnsley district.—E. G. BAyForp, Barnsley. 
Siok 
The Prehistoric Boat from Brigg; Lincolnshire Tokens; Roman Coins 
from South Ferriby; Quarterly Record of Additions, Nos. XXXIV., XXXV. 
and XXXVI.: being Hull Museum Publications, Nos. 73, 74, 76, 77, 79 
and 80. 
The first mentioned of these instructive pamphlets refers to what 
Mr. Sheppard rightly calls ‘one of the most interesting discoveries made 
in recent years.’ This boat, made from a single oak trunk, is about 
sixteen yards in length, and in a fairly good state of preservation, although 
it has been on exhibit something like twenty-five years. The preservative 
treatment it has undergone since the Museum authorities had it presented 
to them by the original owner, should make it less liable to the havoc which 
time and continued drought must work, even on such a time-resisting 
wood as oak is considered to be. The description is exceedingly full and 
complete, and is accompanied by a series of excellent figures, which add 
immensely to the interest and value. Quite incidentally we are told that 
a careful examination of the original caulking of moss has been made 
‘by Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L.S., who has been able to detect no fewer than 
twelve mosses and eleven hepatics after the immense period of time which 
has elapsed since this pre-historic boat was made. Not the least of the 
marvels connected with this pamphlet is its price, which, as with the rest 
of those now noticed, is one penny. 
The two pamphlets on tokens are full of interest to the numismatist, 
and also to the local historian. They are well-illustrated, and should have 
a wide sale. The remaining pamphlets are of a miscellaneous character, 
natural history, antiquarian, and local history being well represented. The 
connection with Wilberforce has attracted to the museum a number of 
articles bearing on the slave-trade. The value and importance of these 
additions will very soon make it imperative to issue a new catalogue, 
which might very appropriately refer the visitor to the special pamphlet 
which contains the necessary details of any exhibit of which he might 
wish to know more than its label may impart. This would be one way 
of giving them a deservedly wider publicity.—E.G.B. 
Naturalist 
