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to the formations above and below ; (2) the existence of a separate 

 formation (Ibiquas) between the Table Mountain Sandstone and the 

 Malmesbury Schists ; (3) a definite glacial conglomerate in the Table 

 Mountain Sandstone ; (4) the careful and systematic examination 

 of the probably Upper Jurassic in the East Province round about 

 Uitenhage confirms and gives welcome additions to what was 

 known before. 



The work has been done by A. W. Rogers and E. H. L, Schwarz. 

 Dr. Corstorphine, while Director of the Survey, made the useful report 

 before us, and on his resignation, we understand, was succeeded by 

 Mr. Eogers. We have no doubt of the further good progress of 

 this Survey. T. E. J. 



III. — Bkitish Museum. A Guide to the Antiquities of the 

 Stone Age in the Department of British and Medieval 

 Antiquities. Pages xii and 124, with ten plates and 142 

 illustrations. (British Museum, Bloomsbury : printed by order 

 of the Trustees, 1902. Price Is.) 



ME. CHAELES H. EEAD, F.S.A., the Keeper of British and 

 Mediaeval Antiquities, who is the author of this admirable 

 <jruide, has conferred a great service on the ordinary Museum visitor, 

 who " wants to know," and is at a loss to find out for himself the 

 hidden meaning of things. He is like the Ethiopian eunuch of old 

 and wants some man to guide him. Mr. Eead kindly comes forward 

 and at once the difficulties of understanding the collection disappear. 



Fig. 1. — Triangular implement, Heme Bay. (Fig. 6, p. 18 in Guide.) f nat. size. 



The period in human history represented by the ' Stone Age ' 

 is just that most difficult of all chapters to write, because the 

 evidence is so largely inductive, and depends for the earlier or 



