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contemporaneously with Neolithic man.* Mr. J. R. Mortimer 

 has also met with beaver remains in his excavations among^st 

 British wold barrows. For example, a beaver's tusk was 

 found in the Dug'gleby Howe, opened in iSgo. This specimen 

 is figured on Plate 9, which accompanies Mr. Mortimer's paper, 

 ' An Account of the Opening; of the Tumulus, ' Howe Hill,' 

 Dug-g;leby.' (Proc. Yorks. Geol. and Polyt. Soc. , 1892, Vol. 12, 

 Pt. 2, pp. 215-224). Another beaver tooth was found in a 

 barrow on Painsthorpe Wold. Canon Greenwell, in his ' British 

 Barrows,' 1877, p. 138, describes an instrument made from 

 a beaver's tooth, found in a barrow in the parish of Langton, 

 East Riding-. 



These known instances of the occurrence of the beaver in 

 East Yorkshire in prehistoric times certainly seem sufficient 

 justification for the assumption that some place-names probably 

 are derived from the former presence of beavers in the 

 vicinity. 



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Geaster lageniformis Vitt. — A fine sample of this rare 

 Geaster (Earth-Star Fung^us) was found at Cantley, near Don- 

 caster, last November, and forwarded to me by Dr. Corbett. 

 The only other Yorkshire record, so far as we are aware, is 

 Beckfoot Lane, Bingley, 1882-3 (Lees' Fl- W.R.). Unfortunately, 

 only one specimen was sent, which is now lodgfed in the Kew 

 Herbarium. — C. Crossland, Halifax, February 1903. 



Lachnea fimbriata Quel. (Cooke's ' Mycog-raphia,' PI. 113, 

 Fig-. 405). — It may be as well here to place on record this new- 

 British Discomycete, referred to in the ' Mycologucal Report ' 

 for last year. It was first noticed on the 2nd October 1902, 

 growling on moist dust lining the wall of the cellar window area 

 at my place o'l business. It continued to flourish till the end of 

 November, and produced many good crops of ascophores in all 

 stages of development. These were distributed to various 

 centres, both at home and abroad, where they were likely to 

 prove of interest. It is a well-marked species, hitherto only 

 recorded for France. — C. Crossland, Halifax, February 1903. 



* These consist of half the lower jaw with incisor and molars, also 

 three other incisors and some molars, and several bones. Mr. Boynton 

 also informs me that many of the timbers in the lake dwelling- showed 

 traces of the ' cutting; ' of the beaver. 



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