Ii6 Proceedings of Provincial Scientific Societies. 



actually imported in their complete form from abroad, as some, in the 

 nature of their material and in their form, are precisely similar to those 

 found in Denmark and Southern Scandinavia. It is interesting to note 

 that as the flint of the Yorkshire chalk is unsuitable for manufacture of 

 weapons, thousands of these have been made from flint brought from 

 elsewhere to form boulders in the glacial deposits of the district. The 

 paper, in addition to information concerning the materials of which the 

 instruments are made, gives much that is new concerning the principal 

 types, and these are illustrated by numerous figures. The author states 

 that there are no palaeolithic impicments, and that it is difficult to place 

 the others in actual order of date. It is possible, however, that among 

 surface finds, upper paheolithic implements may be represented, as they 

 are further to- the south (see Sir J. Evans : Ancient Stone Implements 

 of Great Britain, 2nd edition, p. 581 ), and the relative dates of the various 

 neolithic and bronze-age implements may be determined in the future 

 by comparison with the Scandinavian books, and reference to W. C. 

 Brogger's Classification. Any one writing on this subject must certainly 

 study the fine collection arranged in the Hull Museum by Mr. Sheppard, 

 and also the valuable iNIortimer Collection in the same city. In doing so, 

 he will find this paper of great utility. The number concludes with notes 

 on some Roman Bronze Ornaments, on a Mediaeval Badge, and on the 

 Castles, Swine, signed T.S., and ' A new light on Old Hull,' by Mr. W. 

 Stevenson. — J. E. ^NIarr. 



The Fifty-ninth Annual Report for 1920 of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, reprinted from The Xatiiralisi for January, is for sale by Messrs. 

 A. Brown & Sons, at is. 



The Annual Report of the British Numismatic Society announces a 

 gift of ;^ii3 i8s. id. from 'Sir. J. S. Salters, and an anonymous gift of 

 ;^ioo, contributions towards the increased cost of printing the Society's 

 Proceedings. Now, what about The Naturalist ? 



The Proceedings of the Liverpool N aturalists' Field Club for 1919 have 

 recently been issued, and contain the Address of the President, W. H. 

 Holt, on 'Two Giants ' [William and Joseph Hooker], and Reports on 

 the Field JNIeetings of 1919, which are very full, and carefully written. 



Collectors of Yorkshire Oolitic fossils should consult a paper by 

 Messrs. Richardson and Thacker ' On the Stratigraphical and Geographical 

 Distribution of the Sponges of the Inferior Oolite of the West of England, ' 

 in the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. XXXI., part 4. 



Among the contents of The Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' 

 Society for 1917, recently issued, are 'The Lepidoptera of Glamorgan,' 

 by H. M. Hallett ; 'Storm Burst in the Vale of Neath,' by F. P. 

 Howard ; ' Roman Remains, Cardiff Racecourse,' by J. Ward ; and 

 ' Meteorological Observations,' by E. Walford. 



Mr. J. Edmund Clark and Henry B. Adames favour us with their 

 Report on the Phenological Observations in the British Islands, from 

 December 1918 to November 1919,' reprinted from The Quarierlv Journal 

 of the Royal Meteorological Society for October. We are glad to notice 

 that Yorkshire has ten (observers sending details as to the first appearances 

 of animals and plants, which are annually tabulated in this valuable 

 report . 



Among the contents of The Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin 

 Society, N.S., Vol. XVI., we notice ' The Holothurioidea of the Coasts 

 of Ireland,' by Anne L. Massy, and 'On the Inhibition of Invcrtase in 

 the sap of Galanthus nivalis (Snowdrop),' by T. G. Mason. The same 

 Society's Economic Proceedings contain ' Injurious Insects and other 

 Animals observed in Ireland during the years 1916, 1917 and 1918,' by 

 G. H. Carpenter. 



