516 Chronicles of Science. [Oct., 



The Cheesewring threatened with Destruction* — This very 

 remarkable pile of rocks, six or seven miles north of Liskeard in 

 Cornwall, is threatened with imminent destruction by quarrying 

 operations at its foot. Will no one prevent its demolition? A 

 committee was formed some time since for the express purpose of 

 arresting by all possible means the Yandals who are everywhere 

 plotting the overthrow of our ancient megalithic monuments. 

 Surely the preservation of this fine dolmen is worth an effort. 



The Meenas of Central India. — Lieut.-Colonel Showers has 

 communicated to the Asiatic Society of Bengal an account of the 

 Meenas, a wild tribe of Central India occupying the hilly and 

 jungly country of Jehazpoor, where they appear to have maintained 

 their independence and carried on a marauding life for centuries. 

 They are described as a fine race of men, endowed with great per- 

 sonal courage, and addicted to the use of arms. They marry freely 

 with other tribes, but never allow their daughters to marry out of 

 then- own tribe. Polygamy is allowed, each man having three or 

 four wives. The aggregate male adults in the tribe is about 

 24,000. r . 



Roman London. — Numerous remains of oxen and horned sheep 

 were found some few years since on the site of old London Wall, 

 near Moorgate Street. They had been all killed with the blow of 

 a blunt instrument on the forehead, probably a stone celt. From 

 associated relics there can be little doubt that this was one of the 

 slaughtering places of the ancient inhabitants of London in Eoman 

 times. The Wall-brook evidently ran here, as the foundations of 

 the old wall was built on piles. Another and recent excavation 

 repeats the same story, and shows an old river-bed of silt, with 

 numerous bones of animals. 



Ethnological Society. 



At the Ethnological Society papers have been read during the 

 past quarter by Mr. C. Spence Bate, F.K.S., " On the Pre-historic 

 Monuments of Dartmoor." Mr. Bate gives a melancholy account 

 of the wanton destruction of the cromlechs in this district, and 

 suggests obtaining legal protection for them before they are all 

 demolished. 



Dr. Caulfield records the discovery of copper celts near Butte- 

 vant, Co. Cork, and describes a supposed Ogham inscription from 

 Busglass, Co. Cork. 



Lieutenant S. P. Oliver reports the recent destruction of another 

 cromlech in Jersey. 



Professor Huxley gave an interesting account of "the chief 

 modifications of mankind, and their geographical distribution." 

 * l Nature,' vol. ii.. p. 101. 



