_Notes and Comments. 347 
Rev. J. W. Kenworthy.’ We are not quite sure what a ‘ Stort- 
ford-Grimaldi-Starnberg’ type of horse is, but judging from 
the criticisms of Dr. Irving’s previous ‘ discovery,’ made by 
competent judges, it is probably of the modern “gee-gee’ variety. 
THE ‘ FOSSIL HORSE’ AGAIN. 
In view of the alleged importance of the alleged pre- 
historic horse recorded by Dr. Irving at Bishops Stortford, 
the British Association appointed a Committee to visit the 
site, and report. This report was presented at Birmingham. 
The gentlemen who visited the site found it occupied by a lily- 
pond. A trial trench in an adjoining meadow was filled with 
water, and ‘ of the actual site there is at present no exposure, 
trench, or section of any kind.’ The Committee apologise for 
the ‘report,’ and do not wish to be re-appointed! The work 
of the British Association, at times, almost resembles a farce.’ 
PALEOLITHIC ‘ GUILLOTINE’ TRAP STONES. 
Section H. of the British Association seems particularly 
partial to chestnuts. It will be remembered that in the Rev. 
F. Smith’s extraordinary work on his alleged palzolithic 
implements, he described several very heavy stones which 
looked like implements, but which were obviously too heavy 
to handle.* He therefore invented the ingenious hypothesis 
that they were hung upon trees with cords, so that the wild 
animals passing underneath would break the cords and the 
stones would fall down and kill them. That remarkable 
statement was made to the world four years ago. The subject 
was again brought forward before Section H at the Birmingham 
meeting, in a paper with the above title. The stones ‘ are too 
large to have been used in the hand, but they will suggest in a 
variety of ways their intended purpose of being slung.’ Several 
are over forty pounds in weight. Our sympathies are with 
the members who attended the lectures in Section H. 
GAPING GHYLL. 
Similarly, in Section E (Geography), Dr. Hill read a paper 
on ‘Gaping Ghyll, Yorkshire: its Exploration and Survey.’ 
He told us that it was partially descended in 1872, a complete 
descent was accomplished by Martel in 1895; in 1896 a 
Yorkshire Society went down; in 1903 it was again “ system- 
atically explored,’ and in 1906-7 a report thereon was pub- 
lished, and so on. But no new work appears to have been 
accomplished or recorded, and we presume the Geographical 
Section was satisfied with the ancient history of Gaping Ghyll! 
STONE-BOILING IN THE BRITISH ISLES. 
Mr. T. C. Cantrill pointed out that ‘ The process of boiling 
water by plunging into it a succession of red-hot stones was 
* See review in The Naturalist for 1900, pp. 224-5. 
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