34 JVo/es and Comnicn/s. 



passed across from east to west. Representatives of these two 

 races are frequently found buiied toj^ether in the barrows of 

 Continental Europe of the late Neolithic Age. He finds similar 

 representatives of a mixed race in the round barrows of East 

 Yorkshire. The conclusion to which one is therefore driven, is 

 that at the dawn of the Bronze Age colonists from the mixed 

 race passed over from the Continent to England, occupying, 

 amongst other places, the East Riding of Yorkshire. This 

 differs from the conclusions usually accepted, viz., that in the 

 Bronze Age a pure brachycephalic race passed into England, 

 and that the mixture of types found in the round barrows here 

 is due to the peaceful intermixture of the new arrivals with those 

 who were already in possession. To grant this conclusion, one 

 must believe that a pure round-headed race could have made its 

 tardy progress across Europe unmixed — an assumption which 

 is unwarranted and incredible. Another fact which supports, 

 one in believing that the intermixture had taken place at an 

 early epoch, is that the presence of bronze articles, and the 

 practice of incineration, cannot be associated mor^ with the 

 round-headed individuals than with the long-headed. The 

 round barrows of East Yorkshire must not be associated with a 

 round-headed race. 



' • STRANGE HABITATS FOR P^UNGI. 



In the ' Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian 

 Institute of Science' (vol. ii., pt. i) issued recently, Dr. A. H. 

 MacKay gi\es a provisional list of the Fungi of Nova Scotia. 

 In this is figured and described a specimen of Plcurotiis Cokkvelli 

 n. sp., which was found growing on the bone of a whale in the 

 Museum of Acadia College, Wolfville. The bone had been 

 picked up on the beach two years previously. This somewhat 

 unusual habitat is equalled by an entry in Massee and Crossland's 

 ' I'^uigus I-'lora of Yorkshire.' It is there recorded (p. 60) that 

 about a dozen pilei of a minute agaric [Plcurotiis chionciis Pers.) 

 were found growing upon a human bone, which had been exca- 

 vated from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery near South Cave, and had 

 been placed in a hedge bottom for a few weeks. 



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 judging from the excellent manner in which the ' \'orkshire 

 Ramblers' Club journal '* has been issued, the fme illustralions, 

 and the vaiirly of subjects discussed, the N'orkshire Raml)lfrs' 



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