330 Revieioi — FomU in Glascjow Maseton. 



charred corn, broken pottery, bones of many kinds, etc., but no special 

 antiquity can be assigned to these relics. The human bones in 

 question were found beneath from 75 to 150 feet of gravel, portions 

 of which had been eroded. They however afford no proof of great 

 antiquity. With them were bones of Canis and Bos or Bison, and 

 these again afford no proof of ajitiquity. Moreover, as pointed out bv 

 Mr. Bowman, it is within the limits of possibility "that the bluff in 

 wliich the bones were found may be faced by younger gravel and that 

 the bones were found in a gravel veneer deposited during later periods 

 of partial valley filling". The human remains, which are figuied, 

 include parietal bone, ribs, femurs, etc. These and the other bones 

 are described by Dr. George F. Eaton. 



V. — KicLviNGROVE MusEUM, GLASGOW. — An Introduction to the Stud;/ 

 of Fossils mid Guide to the Palcbontological Collections in this Museum 

 has been prepared by Mr. Peter Macnair, F.G.S., the Curator. 

 (Glasgow, William Hodge & Co., 1912, pp. 89, price Zd.) The first 

 part of this Guide deals with the mode of preservation of organic 

 remains, with the indications they afford of physical conditions and of 

 periods of time, with evolution and classification. Brief descriptions 

 are given of the principal groups of Invertebrata and a few notes are 

 appended on Vertebrata. The collection of fossils is ari'anged strati- 

 graphically, and the great bulk consists of local specimens, so that in 

 the second part, which deals with Historical Palaeontology from 

 Cambrian to llecent times, much more is naturally said about the 

 Palaeozoic than the Secondaiy and Tertiary forms of life. Specimens 

 from the inteiesting volcanic neck in Arran of llhastic and Lower 

 Lias fossils are not separated, and the name Gryphfea incurva is used 

 on one page and G. arcuata on another. Fossil leaves from the 

 Tertiary beds of Mull and MoUusca from the Clyde Beds rightly 

 receive special notice and illustrations. Many figures, indeed, are 

 given throughout the work, and there is a useful index. The Guide 

 has evidently been prepared with care, and should prove verj' useful 

 to students and other visitors to the Museum. 



VI. — ToKTLE Mountain, Albekta. — In 1903 a great landslide 

 occuri'ed along portions of this mountain, whereby seventy lives of 

 people belonging to the town of Frank were lost, and much damage was 

 done. A report of a Commission appointed to investigate the mountain 

 lias been published by the Department of Mines, Canada (Memoir 

 No. 27, 1912). The object of the Commission was to determine 

 whether the continued workings of the coal-mines or independent 

 natural causes are likely to bring about other destructive landslides. 

 The conclusions are that it is not possible to mine within a certain 

 prescribed area without incurring the danger of precipitating a great 

 landslide; and that irrespective of mining operations, and because of 

 existing conditions, there is danger of a similar catastrophe. It is 

 recommended that the greater part of the site of Frank town be 

 abandoned on account of the unstable condition, from natural causes, 

 of the North and South peaks ; and if any mining is carried on within 

 the danger area, it should be only under certain conditions, of packing 



