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PREHISTORIC SOCIETY OF EAST ANGLIA. 



We have received Volume II., Part 3, of the Proceedings 

 of this Society (pp. 329-466, price 3s. 6d.). We are glad to 

 find that the editor, Mr. W. G. Clarke, boldly enters the lions' 

 den with a paper on ' Are Grime's Graves Neolithic ? ' In 

 this he fearlessly challenges the views held by Mr. Reginald 

 Smith and others, and we quite agree that Mr. Clarke makes out 

 a very good case indeed in favour to the comparative late age 

 of the Grime's Graves, as opposed to the ' Cave ' date held by 

 Mr. Smith and his East Anglian satellites. We have long held 

 the opinion now so well expressed by Mr. Clarke, especially as 

 in and around the Yorkshire barrows many of the objects 

 recorded in the Grime's Graves can be matched. At any rate, 

 in the Wold area, we have not even the nebulus evidence of 

 remains of the ' Cave ' period that sometimes seems to exist 

 in East Anglia 



OTHER PAPERS. 



There are the usual number of well-illustrated papers on 

 such subjects as we expect from our friends in East Anglia, for 

 instance, ' Chipped Flints from below the Boulder Clay at 

 Hertford,' ' Flat-faced Pakeoliths from Farnham,' etc. Mr. 

 J. Reid Moir has a characteristic paper on the ' Position of 

 Prehistoric Research in England,' (later referred to as Pre- 

 historical Research ! ), in which he tells the old, old story of his 

 researches and experiments in the chipping of flints. He 

 seems impressed by the Rev. F. Smith's book on ' The Stone 

 Ages in North Britain and Ireland,' a review of which appear? 

 in The Naturalist for 1909, pp. 224-5, to which we should ! • 

 to draw Mr. Moir's attention. Another characteristic contribu 

 tion of Mr. Moir's follows, in which he has to correct no fewer 

 than 30 errors in a list of shells from the Crags, which he 

 published in a previous volume. Mr. Peake deals very fully 

 with further excavations at Grime's Graves (called ' Gfaves ' 

 in the heading), in which he describes many interesting im- 

 plements, though some of these, for example, ' a heavy wedge- 

 shaped implement about 9 inches long which can only have been 

 used with two hands for chopping, though it is possible it formed 

 part of a trap for killing deer,' are hardly convincing. He also 

 figures a bronze spear head, which he found himself on one of 

 the floors, and in view of the great age usually ascribed to the 

 Grime's Graves, we can only hope that this Bronze-Age weapon 

 is a later intrusion. 



MONOGRAPH OF MOLLUSCA. 



We have received Part 23 of Mr. J. W. Taylor's Monograph 

 of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles, which 

 includes a description of a new Genus, Ashfordia, ' instituted 



1917 Dec. 1. 



