114 REPORT 1877. 



Photograplis of Representations of Vascular Injection by Prof. Dantscher, of 

 'Innsbruck. By Dr. Allen Thomson, F.B.S. 



The author brought under the notice of the Section the approaching publication 

 of a series of photographic representations of the minute distribution of blood- 

 vessels in a number of the organs of the animal body, made under the superinten- 

 dence of Prof. Dantscher, of the University of Innsbruck, from injected and corroded 

 preparations made by himself. Dr. Thomson saw some of these preparations some 

 years ago at Innsbruck, and admired them much. 



The collection has since been much increased, and the photographs executed 

 partly on paper and partly on glass : and some of them, coloured after the original 

 preparations, are capable of being viewed with the stereoscope so as to give a most 

 truthful and instructive view of the beautiful structures they represent. 



Dr. Thomson regretted that accidental circumstances had made it impossible to 

 show some of these photographs to the Section. They are all to be presented to 

 the Meeting of German naturalists at Munich in September, and the work will be 

 dedicated to the University of Tubingen on the occasion of the four-hundredth anni- 

 versary of its foundation, which was held in the past month of July. 



On a Method of excluding Germs from Booms used for Surgical Operations. 



\By W. Thomson, F.C.S. 



Anthropology. 



[For Mr. Francis Gallon's Address, see page 94.] 

 On Flint Flalces from Cormvall and the Stilly Isles. By Dr. Baeham. 



Prehistoric Remains on Dartmoor. By C. Spence Bate, F.R.S. 



The author made some remarks on the prehistoric remains near the Plym. 

 The remains were unique in their character. He exhibited a diagram of the 

 remains lying within two branches of the Plym, bounded on the upperside by 

 Aylesbury and Higher and Lower Hartor, which were, he said, typical of all the 

 other remains on Dartmoor. They consisted of lines of stones, about a pace apart, 

 and of different lengths, terminating with a stone circle at one end and with a " kist 

 vaen " at the other. The kist vaen was a stone box, two feet broad, four feet long, 

 and about two feet four inches deep. In the one investigated the cap-stone was still 

 there, and in a most perfect condition. Near it was a cairn or stone heap, not a ■ 

 barrow, which was distinguished from a cairn by being an earth heap. He had 

 opened one or two of these cairns on Hamel Down some time ago. In one he found 

 the remains of some burnt human bones, a single stone, and near them a single flint 

 implement, a very fine Hake, which might be supposed to make a useful flint hat- 

 chet. A second barrow near differed very little from the first. There were, however, 

 a number of stones lying flat : beneath them he found a little ornamental article 

 composed of amber inlaid with gold ; its margin was broken, and it had little gold 

 rivets put around the sides. Close by he found a little bronze blade of a dagger, 

 and he ultimately conceived that the two articles were originally connected — that 

 one was, in fact/the blade and the other the handle of a complete dagger. They 

 were evidently not of British type. Mr. Franks had confirmed him in the idea 

 that they were of the Neolithic period, just as flint was passing into bronze, and 

 were probably Scandinavian in their character. On the banks of these little rivers 

 they found the remains of tin-works to an enormous amount. He did not say they 

 all belonged to pre 1 , istoric times ; for in the days of Elizabeth, when Sir "Walter 

 Kaleigh was Lord Warden of the Stannaries, he held his court in this district. 



