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sweeping" down the valley to the westward between Grove Hill 

 and Windy Hill. I have traced it as far as Lowcross House. 

 It is about 25 feet deep near the Chaloner Pit Railway. 



In strict alig'nment with Scugdale Slack is a dry valley 

 to the south of Moordale Beck. It commences near Upsal Pit 

 and flows past Barnaby Moor Farm. The erosion began at 

 575 feet, continuing to 525 feet. The ice has here evidently 

 caused the impounded waters of Moordale Beck to travel along- 

 its margin and out by Scugdale Slack. Upon the final retreat 

 the beck resumed it old course, leaving the channel high and 

 dry. 



After Scugdale Slack was abandoned the waters from Upper 

 Moordale flowed along the ice front eastwards. The present 

 course of the stream beyond Crow Well is very anomalous, 

 recalling on a small scale that of the Esk at Crunkley Gill. 

 Here a mass of drift, 500 feet high, blocks up the small valley. 

 On the southern side of this barrier flows Moordale Beck in 

 a very narrow channel. The most curious point, however, is 

 that to the north of the drift hill is a channel, now dry, falling" 

 eastwards at a lower level than the top of the present gorg-e ! 

 I take this to mean that the northerly channel was formed first, 

 then the ice re-advanced a little, and compelled the beck to flow 

 at another and higher level. This continued for so long that on 

 the retreat of the ice any flow down the northerly channel was 

 impossible. A simpler explanation may be found in the irregular 

 deposition of the drift with an ice barrier standing on the mound 

 until the critical level had been passed, but it leaves unexplained 

 the northerly channel with its fall to the castivarcl. Both 

 explanations, however, demand an ice barrier. 



In Man for May, 1906, the Hon. JoIiti Abcroroiiib\- fivfurcs and describes 

 a Neolitliic ' Pintadora ' (?) from Dcrbysliiiv. This is of red deer horn, one 

 end of which is rounded and pohsiied, the otlier being' cut into a diamond 

 pattern. It was found in association with tliree pieces of red oclire. The 

 author considers that tiie horn object ' may have been a portable stamp or 

 pintadera, witli a hole for supension, and intended for im^jrinting' a pattei'n 

 on tile human body.' The specimen is in the Bateman Collection, now in 

 the Sheffield Museimi. 



The following" is a list of the donations to the Public Museum at Boolle 

 last year : — Print of the Great Seal of George I., Nest anil Kggs of 

 Blackbird, Throstle, House Sparrow, and Robin ; Model of Catamaran ; 

 Casts of Tyi^ical I'"ootprints (Trias) ; Bow and Arrows from BorTieo ; a lai-ge 

 Turtle Shell |gi\cn by an Alderman !] ; an I'^'igle ; South AmeiMcan Birds ; 

 specimens of Phunbago and Soapst<}ne ; a Gold l""ish ; Cannel Coal ; a 

 Tiger Moth ; Seahorses from V'enice ; a Musk Beetle ; Nests of Blackbird, 

 liulllinch. Hedge Sparrow, and Throstle; Hedgehog; Otter's Head; 

 Water Vole ; Mineral specimens ; a Pheasant ; Sketches of the S.ilmon ; 

 and a Venomous Spider and young Alligator (in spirits). 



Naturalist, 



