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it has been often correlated". These views appear revolutionary, 

 but we have been prepared by Dr. T. F. Sibly (Geol. Mag., 1912, 

 p. 417) for the new interpretation of the structure of the district. 



Among other articles is one by Mr. William Bellows on " The 

 Island of Jan Mayen " ; one by Mr. Richardson on "The Water 

 Supply of the City of Gloucester " ; and one on " The Lower Severn 

 Plain during the Glacial Epoch", by Mr. Joseph W. Gray. In this 

 last paper the author concludes that the deposits " suggest a partial 

 derivation from moraines left by ice-sheets that approached the 

 district on the north and east. Other parts may be remnants of 

 Tertiary river gravels". He further remarks that "Although 

 there may have been an extension of the Severn Estuary as far north 

 as Worcester, there is no evidence of a great Post-Cretaceous sub- 

 mergence of the vs^hole of the Plain ". 



X. — Peehistokic Society of East Anglia. 



IN the Geological Magazine for November, 1911 (p. 522), we drew 

 attention to the first part of the Proceedings of this Society. 

 The second part, for 1910-12, has just been issued (H. K. Lewis, 

 136 Gower Street, W.C., price os. Qd. net). It contains abundant 

 material concerning flints variously shaped, some by nature, most of 

 them regarded as 'artifacts' or not manufactured by nature. The 

 several papers are illustrated by no less than thirty-one plates, some 

 of undisputed Palaeolithic and Neolithic implements, scrapers, flakes, ' 

 and cores, others of the partially chipped or unchipped flints that 

 may have been found serviceable by man or " some intelligent 

 ape-like progenitor". 



- Dr. W. Allen Sturge writes on " The Patina of Elint Implements", 

 Mr. J. Eeid Moir on " The Natural Fracture of Flint and its bearing 

 upon Rudimentary Flint Implements ", and Mr. F. N. Haward on 

 "The Chipping of Flints by Natural Agencies". The views 

 expressed are not all favourable to the great antiquity of man, nor 

 to the evidence of his handiwork on some of the ruder types of 

 so-called implements. Considering that there is doubt about the 

 presence of man in Pliocene times, it would be preferable not to use 

 so definite a title as that on "Implements of Sub-Crag Man in 

 Norfolk", by Mr. W. G. Clarke. "Sub-Crag Implements" would 

 be better, as it would allow of the agency of an anthropoid animal. 

 It is indeed remarked by Mr. Moir that " The biologists have no 

 evidence as to when Man first appeared on this earth, and in my 

 opinion are quite absyrd in drawing conclusions regarding him from 

 the other mammalia". This is not a philosophical statement. 

 Mr. Haward, in discussing the "interesting and problematic chipped 

 stones called Eoliths", concludes "that the vast majority of these 

 meaningless chipped flints are the result of Nature's work and not 

 Man's". A full account of "The Occurrence of a Human Skeleton 

 in a Glacial Deposit at Ipswich " is given by Mr. Moir, and one of 

 the remarkable points mentioned is that "the skeleton was lying 

 partly embedded in glacial sand and partly in boulder- clay ". 

 If true, this seems inexplicable. The "boulder-clay", however. 



