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to be cleaving wood with axes, the heads of the axes being tied on to the 

 shafts with cross ligatures. Mr. Cockburn discusses the question why in 

 an age of considerable mechanical ability the men of the bronze age did 

 not cut their axes with a transverse hole through which the handle might 

 pass. He concludes that this arose neither from a want of the requisite 

 skill nor for want of a proper conception of the pattern, but simply from 

 the fact that the eyeletted axe required a comparatively extravagant expen- 

 diture of metal, which, although not generally uncommon at the period 

 indicated, would be so amongst the mixed aboriginal class, who were poor 

 as a rule and possessed of the simplest implements procurable. To show 

 that the people of this age were acquainted with the modern method of 

 making the axe-head, Mr. Cockburn instances Plate XLIII, fig. 2, from 

 the coping of the Bharhut stupa, where a hunter is represented bearing on 

 his left shoulder an axe clearly of the eyeletted pattern, differing in no re- 

 spect from the modern axe. The paper concludes with some remarks on 

 the saw-like implement in Plate XXVI, fig. 6, of the Bharhut sculptures, 

 and on the arrows of that period. 



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IBRARY. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the Meet- 

 ing held in April last. 



Transactions, Proceedings and Journals, 



presented hy the respective Societies and Editors. 

 Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University, — American Chemical Journal, 



Vol. Ill, No. 0, February 1882. 



. . American Journal of Mathematics, — Vol. IV, No. 2. 



. . American Journal of Philology, — Vol. II, No. 8. 



. . Circulars,— No. 13, February 1882. 



. . Studies from the Biological Laboratory, — Vol. II, 



No. 2. 

 Batavia. Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, — 



Notulen, Vol. XIX, Nos. 2-4, 1881. 



. . Verhandelingen, — Vol. XLI, Nos. 1 and 3. 



. Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, — Vol. 



XXVII, Nos. 1-5. 



. Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory, — Observations, Vol. 



V, Part 6. ° 



Rainfall in the East Indian Archipelago, 1881. 



