2 Notes and Comments. 



Instead of telling us plainly that ' I picked up a flint on the 

 shore,' it is ' the present author's researches on the beach, in 

 the presence of,' and so on. Even Prof. Sollas, following Sir 

 Ray Lankester and Prof. Marr, now worships at the same 

 shrine, and with reverent and respectful humility, tells us that 

 this man picked a flint from a deposit with his own hands ! 

 Is Prof. Sollas in the habit of picking things up with anybody 

 else's hands, or does he pick flints out of strata with his toes 

 or teeth? The 'author' has been to Mundesley, and tem- 

 porarily all the wonders of the prehistoric world are switched 

 on there for his edification. But he cannot give a plain 

 account of the marvels of Mundesley without tacking on to it 

 the stereotyped story of the succession of the flints at Ipswich, 

 which we have seen over and over again in almost every 

 scientific magazine in the country, with the exception, perhaps, 

 of The Naturalist. 



THE CONTENTS. 



Otherwise, the volume is entertaining. Certainly the 

 large crude school-boy sketches which once so lavishly 

 adorned a certain author's rippling murmurs have disappeared 

 and given place to decent sketches, but dozens of the illus- 

 trations are of quite common flints, and neither the flints 

 themselves nor the illustrations in many cases are worth the 

 cost of the blocks. Yet the subscription (a few years ago 2/6, 

 then 5/-) is to be raised to 10/- in order to ' keep up the 

 standard of the report.' Personally one would rather be 

 without scores of these unnecessary illustrations, and save 

 the second five shillings. There are, however, many valuable 

 papers in the present part (Vol. III., pt. 2). These include 

 ' Man and the Ice Age,' Presidential Address, by Prof. J. E. 

 Marr ; ' Windmill Hill, Avcbury, and Grime's Graves : Cores 

 and Choppers,' by H. G. 0. Kendall ; ' Implements from the 

 Glacial Deposits of North Norfolk,' by J. Cox ; ' A Romano- 

 British Site at Santon,' by W. G. Clarke ; ' Implements from 

 Beer Head, South-east Devon,' by J. A. Powell ; ' A Bronze 

 Shield from Sutton, Norfolk,' by R. Gurney ; ' The Stoke 

 Bone -Bed, Ipswich,' by N. F. Layard ; ' A Scries of Humanly- 

 fashioned Flints from Mundesley,' by J. R. Moir ; ' A New 

 Celt-making Floor at Grime's Graves,' by D. Richardson ; 

 Note on the Paper by Mr. F. N. Haward on ' The Origin of 

 the Rostro-Carinate Industry,' by A. S. Barnes ; ' A Flaked 

 FTint from the Red Crag,' by Prof. W. J. Sollas ; ' Some 

 Flat -based Celts from Kent and Dorset,' by H. Dewey ; 

 ' The Evidence of South Yorks. Surface Implements relative 

 to Classification and Dating,' by A. L. Armstrong ; ' Grime's 

 Graves : Floors 47 to 59,' by H. G. O. Kendall ; ' Classification 

 of Burins or Gravers, also ' Pleistocene Deposits in England 

 and the Continental Chronology,' by M. C. Burkitt. 



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