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and ' knowing ' smile so familiar with us on the original of the 

 portrait ; and we can understand the statement that was made 

 by a gentleman who had seen Dr. Anderson ' look hke that 

 when the hot water pipes had gone wrong! ' Dr. Anderson 

 returned thanks ; Sir Everard ini Thurm and Prof. Boyd 

 Dawkins thanked Prof. Bonney for his address ; and Prof. 

 Bonney replied. Tea was provided in the Society's beautiful 

 grounds, and the band of the York Company of the National 

 Reserves played ' I don't care what becomes of me,' ' Yip-i- 

 addy-i-aye,' etc. 



ROMAN IRON FROM CORBRIDGE. 



Sir Hugh Bell has kindly favoured us with a copy oi an 

 interesting paper which he recently read at a meeting of the 

 Iron and Steel Institute. During the excavations on the 

 site of the Roman station of Corstopitum, near Corbridge, the 

 remains .of a furnace were found, in which was a bloom. of iron, 

 weighing over three hundredweight. It was three feet four 

 inches long, seven inches square at one end, tapering to four 

 and a half inches at the other end, which was well rounded. 

 In order to make a thorough investigation, the bloom was 

 sawn through, and carefully examined, the results of which 

 are given in the paper. It is apparent that the bloom was 

 built up by small ingots of iron being welded together, and in 

 the opinion of Sir Hugh Bell and others, the iron was probably 

 derived from the local blackband ironstones of the Carboni- 

 ferous series. The paper is accompanied by a map, photo- 

 graphs of the furnace and bloom, and of photo-micrographs 

 of the metal. 



AN EAST ANGLIAN ELEPHANT. 



In a recent number of Nature Mr. J. R. Moir has an illus- 

 trated note describing an elephant's tusk found at the top of 

 the Middle Glacial Sand, beneath the Chalky Boulder Clay, 

 near Ipswich. As no human bones were found with the tusk, 

 however, we can hardly agree that ' this discovery appears to 

 be of some importance, and affords an answer to those critics 

 who were dissatisfied with the discovery of the human skeleton 

 because any other mammalian remains were not found at the 

 same horizon.' The tusk recently found may have been at 

 the same depth as the alleged pre-glacial human skeleton found 

 some little time ago ; but, as previously explained in this 

 column, the mildest verdict that can be given with regard to 

 the alleged great age of the Ipswich man is that the matter 

 is ' not proven.' 



THE IPSW'ICH SKELETON. 



Since our remarks on the Ipswich skeleton were made, we 

 have received the Antiquary for June, which contains a report 

 of the paper read to the Royal Anthropological Institute in 



1912 July I. 



