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Scottish Museum. The pottery is at present being compared with the 

 pottery found in the Glastonbury lake-dwelhngs. 



The archaeological relics include a number of stone implements, one 

 or two whorls, and an ivory playing piece. 



Late in the season a dug-out canoe was discovered supporting the 

 logs in one of the pits. A length of twenty feet was exposed when the 

 late autumn floods stopped work for the year. 



From the point of view of structure the results obtained have been 

 interesting, and if continued may prove very valuable archaeologically. 

 Any approximation as to the date of the island, or to the dates of its 

 various eras, can only be made after careful comparison of the results 

 obtained with those got at other sites — work that involves much labour 

 and time. While further work on the island is very desirable, such 

 work, to be of value, must be on a more ambitious scale than the funds 

 available have hitherto permitted. 



The facts that continuous layers of occupation-refuse exist right 

 down to the original bed of the lake and that much of the woodwork 

 overlying these layers and supporting the surface-material shows 

 signs of having been previously used structurally would point to the 

 site's having been originally the location of a pile dwelHng or palifite, 

 the ddbris from which formed the basis of the more modern crannog. 

 While this suggestion is made tentatively, the theory was not sought 

 for, but was arrived at as a possible and a very probable explanation of 

 many circumstances noted in course of the investigation. 



The Structure and Function of the Mammalian Heart.— Report 

 of the Committee, consisting of Professor C. S. Sherrington 

 (Chairman), Professor Stanley Kent (Secretary), and Dr. 

 Florence Buchanan, appointed to make further Researches 

 thereon. (Drawn up hy the Secretary.) 



The work of the Committee since the date of the last Eeport ^ has 

 progressed slowly, owing to numerous interruptions which have 

 occurred. TKe Secretary was for some time engaged in the training of 

 officers for the new armies. Afterwards he devoted the whole of his 

 time to an inquiry into industrial fatigue. Under the circumstances 

 it was thought best to devote such time as was available to the prepara- 

 tion of material and the accumulation of facts rather than to attempt 

 the publication of any detailed statement of results. The work that 

 has been done is satisfactory, and will greatly assist future progress. 

 The Committee ask to be reappointed with a grant of 501. 



> Annual Report, 1915, p. 226. 



