372 Notices of Memoirs. 
NOTICES OF MEMOTRS. 
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J.—Tse Art or ‘I'repHINING AMONG PREHISTORIC AND PRIMITIVE 
Proptes. By. T. Witson Parry, M.D., F.G.S. Journ. British 
Archeological Association, pp. 39, with 11 figs., March, 1916. 
R. PARRY has long made a detailed study of the art of trephining 
the human skull, and now publishes an interesting summary of 
the whole subject. Skulls of the Neolithic period undoubtedly 
trephined during life have been discovered several times in France, 
but only one example possibly of so old a date has hitherto been met 
with in Britain. This is reported to have been found with remains 
of the Irish deer, in peat at Port Talbot, South Wales. Two specimens 
which certainly belong to the Bronze Age have been examined by 
Dr. Parry, one from a cist at Mountstuart, in the Isle of Bute, the 
other from a long barrow near Bisley, Gloucestershire. Two other 
trephined skulls, one from Hunsbury Camp, near Northampton, and 
the second from the Thames, near Hammersmith, are probably of 
later date. These are the only examples of trephining hitherto found 
in Britain. It may be added that the Hammersmith skull has now 
been placed in the London Museum, where it is exhibited with an 
explanatory collection arranged by Dr. Parry. 
II.—Recorp or a Prenisrortc Inpusrry In TasuLrar FLint ar 
Brambripcge AND HieHrierp, NEAR Sovraampron. By R. EH. 
Nicnoras, F.L.S., F.G.S. pp. 92, pls. xli, text-figs. 8. South- 
ampton: Toogood & Sons, 1916. | 
(WVHIS beautifully illustrated little work by the Hon. Curator of 
the Tudor House Museum, Southampton, is a series of notes on 
a large collection of flints which the author has made at two localities 
near Southampton. ‘The two sites are described, with explanatory 
diagrams, and the chief characteristics of each specimen are briefly 
enumerated. Dr. Robert Munro appends two pages of ‘‘ Explanatory 
Notes”’, expressing the opinion that the working of the flints dates 
back to the transition period between the Paleolithic and Neolithic 
civilizations, which is already known by discoveries of similar flints 
at Cissbury, in the Oban caves, and in other localities. 
III.—Uerer Devonian Fisn Remarys From ELtesMERE LAND, WITH 
Remarks on Drepanasrrs. By Jouan Kime. Report of the 
Second Norwegian Arctic Expedition in the Fram, 1898-1902, 
No. 33 (pp. 72, pls. viii, text-figs. 8), 1915. - 
(JYHE fragmentary Upper Devonian fish-remains discovered by 
_ the late Per Schei in Goose Fiord, Ellesmere Land, have been 
exhaustively studied at Christiania by Dr. Johan Kier, who describes 
them in this well-illustrated report. Only one specimen was obtained 
from the truly marine beds at the base of the series—a head-shield of 
a small new species of MMacropetalichthys, named after its discoverer. 
