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was quite a good House — about 150 members, and no opposition 

 from the enemy. A strengthening amendment to prevent 

 women from bringing plumage into the country in their 

 baggage was added.' 



THE EXCESSIVE COST OF PRINTING. 



We learn from The Publishers' Circular that ' a 

 memorandum for the Printing and Publishing Firms of 

 Great Britain ' has recently been issued by a number of 

 officers of literary societies and librarians of libraries not 

 supported by State funds, with the object of impressing on 

 the printing and publishing firms in question the danger 

 they are incurring by enforcing the recent enormous increase 

 in the price of books and in the cost of printing generally. 

 The distinguished signatories of this document point out that 

 it is to the public detriment that learned societies should be 

 forced to cut down their output of proceedings and monographs, 

 and that libraries should have to reduce to a minimum the 

 number of books they purchase. They also point out that 

 if learned societies are unable to continue their series of 

 publications there will be less work for the printers.' We 

 should like to draw the attention of printers and others con- 

 cerned at Hull and elsewhere to this matter. 



THE BOURNEMOUTH REPORT. 



The British Association report for 1919 (Bournemouth 

 meeting) has appeared. W'e found this out quite recently 

 by accident, in an attempt to correct a statement made by 

 the British Association itself as to its reports. It seems that 

 the report was duly printed, but was only sent out to those 

 who asked for it , and as none of the members were then informed 

 that an application was necessary, presumably very few reports 

 have been circulated. In the following year, certainly, we 

 were advised that it was necessary to apply for a report, and 

 the necessity for these applications, we believe, has saved 

 many volumes. As a member of the British Association for 

 many years, and a keen collector of scientific literature of 

 this description, we must admit it came as a surprise to us 

 that a Report should be printed and published in the year 1920 

 of which we had no knowledge, and to which no reference what- 

 ever seems to have been made in any publication in this 

 country, or anywhere else. 



UNRELIABLE RECORDS. 



The Yorkshire Post recently gave a lengthy account of Neo- 

 lithic Man in Yorkshire, based entirely on a report of the dis- 

 covery of some human remains at Grassington, while removing 

 sand from a gravel pit. It was stated that the ' local antiquary ' 

 had no doubt about the fact that they were remains of Neo- 



