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NOTE—ARCHZOLOGY. 
A Stone Cait from Castleshaw, Saddleworth.—The readers of ‘The 
Naturalist’ who take an eatin in prehistoric implements will be interested to 
now that a very gerne and almost perfect, stone was d ina bed of clay 
this morning at Castleshaw, Saddlewor lay cutting averages from 
3 ft. 6 in. to nd is $30 ft. above the level of the sea. I w 
deep below the surface of the ground the celt reposed, as it fo til 
the clay was b cut and prepared for pudd It 1ld be interesting to 
§ 
know on as fixing its position i sttu, and enable us to form an approximate pee 
of the rate of einen of clay in cece of land on the Pennine slopes, and 
the eval soa ash. 
e long: eth of my celt is 44 in. by 24 in. at the broader cutting edge. 
It is beautifully poten, Psy coated with a thin film of poe ee matter, and 
ich e 
ker aie fa bom hrough the 
centre of the smaller axis and add sand to its “beauty, nd probably attracted 
the eye of the primitive man who shaped it. The texture is fine-grained, and the 
rock may be greenstone. 
Castleshaw valley has now yielded me two celts similar in character, but 
different in size. I have always regarded this valley as one of the most recently 
former time was not only more rolific, but more vigorous and healthy, and 
afforded shelter and protection to the early members of our race, who fashione ed 
and used the implements to which I have referred.—Wm. Warts, F.G.S 
June 11th, 1891. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
The Rev. C. G. Green is publishi ing a series of papers on ‘The Rarer Birds of 
the West,’ in a magazine which by its interesting ee gion geoess al get-up d aes 
honour to Plymouth and Devon, viz., e Wes Magazine and Portfolio, 
stern 
which in appearance and style reminds one of the familiar ‘ English Illustrated. 
poo 
A pl haere ait sage: book by the Rev. Bennett George Johns, M.A., Vica 
of he gemarcseae Han s before us. It is published in a handsome pictorial 
cloth cover by eer ae Ce, at 2s. e and is entitled oe the Butterflies 
a Book eed Kinng. Co ey ” Twelve woodcut plates depict the various se pr 
an e en 3 fidiidaies aie names, habitats and dates, both o 
Desens aan tie caterpillars. 
Be eae ae 
of good botanical work has been done in Yorkshire by a distinguished 
sedenisoutes botanist, Rev. W. Mayle Rogers, F.L.S., who spent all August and 
a 
out Helmsl 
_ a. of Wensleydale, This forms the subject of a paper e titled ‘ Notes 0 
the Rubi and Rose of the Yorkshire Dales,’ which is ‘published in 1 
eyouedal of Botany’ for August 
00 ———_ 
“An Historical Account of the Genus Latirus pyrene — - ria nee Ss, 
th descriptions of eleven new species, an a 
Peristernia,’ which has just been published in the ria 280 of the Mahe? 
Literary and Philosophical Society, is our indefatigable friend mal J. Rages 
cidiod latest — £6 _— holugical literature. Eleve ri eta ey, 
as new, bringing up the total numbers nena? o 62 
ype and 49 of Poristernia or dit m fae ther. 
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