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gravels, and states that ‘ possibly some of them may have 
been artificially fashioned and drilled for stringing. . . .’ 
May I not pertinently ask, does not the occurrence of these 
beads point to a higher state of development in palzolithic 
man than is usually supposed?’ And he refers to cave 
paintings, etc.! In a lengthy note Dr. Henry Woodward 
shows that these ‘ beads’ are chalk sponges, known as Poro- 
sphera globularis, and not evidence of human workmanship 
at all. This is perhaps as well, or we should have to invent 
Paleolithic man to account for the hundreds of these ‘ beads’ 
which occur in the Holderness gravels, and a much ‘palzolithic- 
er’ man to account for similar specimens which are found 
in the solid chalk of the Yorkshire cliffs! We are indebted to 
Dr. Woodward for the loan of the block which accompanies 
his note. 
ECONOMICAL ENTOMOLOGY. 
The Bureau of Entomology has issued two publications 
entitled The Review of Applied Entomology. One is. further 
described as ‘ Vol. I., Ser. A, Part I. , pp. I-32,’ and the other, 
evole |. oer. sb, Part, low pp: 1-20. “Both are dated January, 
1913; both are published by Dulau’s, one at sixpence and 
the other at ninepence. The publications contain summaries 
of papers bearing upon various branches of ‘ Agricultural’ and 
‘Medical and Veterinary’ Entomology, (further sub-titles!) 
respectively. These summaries vary in length from a few 
lines to three or four pages, and are similar to Science Abstracts, 
and the reports of papers which are given in The Journal of 
the Board of Agriculture. As these summaries are accompanied 
by detailed particulars of the publications in which the papers 
appear, we should have thought that the editors would have 
attempted to simplify the titles, etc., of their own publications. 
And instead of having two different series published simul- 
taneously, with similar pagination, but different sub-titles 
and different prices, surely it would have simplified matters 
to have published both, with the title Review of Abpias? 
Entomology, in one cover, and at the price of a shilling ? 
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