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large fossil crustacean known as Pterygotus. The first two 

 verses are as follows : — 



To the Lairds of Creation, the ' Seraphim ' spoke 



' Ere my corpus you get at there's stones to be broke ' 



Then each able member of our section C 



Will steze up his hammer and straight follow me. 



There's Powrie and Slimon to show us the way 

 To split up the shales, and recover the prey ; 

 And if you would wish the right quarry to see 

 Take train at 10-30 for Balruddery. 



YORKSHIRE MAMMALS. 



On Wednesday evening, the i6th Oct., a new gallery was 

 opened at the Municipal Museum, Hull, which is to be entirely 

 devoted to the exhibition of local mammals, The specimens 

 include several historical examples from the collection of the 

 late Sir Henry Boynton, and other sources, and a number of 

 them are the last records of the kind for the district. The 

 collection is arranged in specially made cases, in which the 

 animals are shown in their natural surroundings, in addition 

 to which there are several large groups showing the male, 

 female, and their young, etc. The groups consist of Otters, 

 Badgers, Hedgehogs, Deer, Foxes, etc. On the occasion, the 

 Curator gave an address on the Mammals of the East Riding 

 .of Yorkshire. 



STORY OF A GREAT ' DISCOVERY.' 



In these columns we have more than once drawn attention 

 to the fact that in the geological and archaeological world 

 things are not always what they seem. Usually a ' little 

 knowledge ' has proved dangerous to its possessor. In the 

 following case, however, which is taken from the Daily Tele- 

 graph, the ' discovery ' was made, and an interpretation thereof 

 given by those who ought to have known better. But such 

 things do occur by those who are in red-hot haste to get their 

 ' find ' telegraphed and photographed for the daily press. ' The 

 first example in Great Britain of prehistoric cave painting of 

 the kind already familiar to palaeontologists from the Caves of 

 Dordogne, the South of France, the Pyrenees, and the peninsula 

 of Spain, has recently been discovered on the walls of Bacon's 

 Hole, near Mumbles, by Professor Breuill and Professor 

 Sollas.' So reported the Times a few days ago. How these dis- 

 tinguished French archaeologists lighted upon this momentous 

 discovery was described vividly and with much detail. We 

 were told how Professor Breuill, ' without exception the most 

 distinguished investigator of Aurignacian deposits,' and Pro- 

 fessor Sollas set out on an expedition to the Gower Coast in 



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