NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



PERTHSHIRE NATURALISTS. 



The old established Perthshire Society of Natural Science 

 still continues to lecord its valuable work in its Transactions 

 and Proceedings, Part 4 of Vol. VI., of which has recently 

 appeared. There are numerous interesting papers on the 

 Archaeology and Natural History of Perthshire, among which 

 may be mentioned : — Note on Stone Cists found at Flawcraig 

 and Burnfoot, in the Carse of Gowrie, by Henry Coates ; Local 

 Museums and Archaeological Research, by J. Graham Callander ; 

 Some Aspects of the Forestry Question, by J. A. Donald ; 



Sub-fossil Elk's Horn found at Methven. 



Botanical and other Notes, by D. A. Haggart ; Note on a 

 Sub-fossil Elk's Horn found at Methven, by Mr. H. Coates. 

 The specimen referred to ' is the left horn [antlerj of a young 

 Elk, Alces machlis Gray. It measures 27 inches across.' It 

 is' still preserved in the hall of Methven Castle, and we are 

 kindly permitted to reproduce the accompanying illustration 

 from the Society's publication. 



FACETTED PEBBLES. 



At a recent meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philos- 

 ophical Society, Mr. J. W. Jackson read a paper on ' The Associa- 

 tion of Facetted Pebbles with Glacial Deposits.' The object of 

 the paper was to place on record several recent discoveries of 



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