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a particular little hollow, at which I had a good look because 
my ball came to rest in it, I could not detect a single stalk of 
Fescue grass. The verdant carpet seemed to me to be com- 
posed chiefly of the poa grasses. Thirty feet higher up, at the 
same hole, there were nothing but the Fescues.’ Who says 
there is nothing in the study of plant associations after that ? 
A DARLINGTON ‘§ FIND.’ 
Some little stir has been caused in local circles by the 
‘discovery, at Darlington, of a bone two feet in diameter and 
three feet long, found at a depth of six feet, ‘immediately below 
a bed of glacial clay and above the gravel.’... ‘Theories 
innumerable have been propounded by geologists, scientists, 
anatomists, and others who have inspected the find, but nothing 
at all probable has as yet been forthcoming. It will be produced 
at a meeting of the Darlington Naturalists’ Field Club, when 
anyone interested may attend and take part in the inquest which 
is to be held. What the verdict may be it is impossible to say, 
but for the guidance of the jury we append the jaw-breaking 
designation of some of the largest known extinct animals, and 
they may choose any they wish :—Anthracotherium, anapol- 
therium, dinotherium giganterum, ichthyosaurus, lopiodon, 
mastodon giganteus, megatherium, mosasaurus, palzosaurus, 
paleotherium, plesiosburus, teleosaurus, and tetracaulodon.’ 
We have printed the names as they appear in the local press! 
Mr. Edward Wooler has kindly favoured us with a photograph 
of the ‘discovery,’ and as was suspected, it turns out to bea 
part of the lower jaw of a whale—probably part of a gate-post 
—as fifty years ago hundreds of these jaw-bones were sold for 
this purpose and distributed over the country. In East York- 
shire dozens such still exist. 
THE SCARBOROUGH MUSEUM. 
We have received the Annual Report of the Scarborough 
Philosophical Society for 1906, in which is included the report 
of the Scarborough Naturalists’ Society. We are glad to 
motice that, through the energy of its members, its debt has 
been wiped off, the much needed renovations of the property 
have been partly carried out, and there is a good balance in 
hand. The floor of the geological room, which had collapsed, 
thas been concreted. Substantial alterations have also been 
‘carried out in other parts of the Museum, and a generous gift of 
£100 enables the Society’s library to have proper attention. 
atgo7 June 1. 
