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man replied ' That's just what I want to know myself. I started for 

 Devizes when my beard was black, and now it is grey, and I haven't got 

 there yet.' The Devil replied ' If that's how it is, I won't carry this 

 thing no further, so here goes,' and he pitched the ' girt hump ' off his 

 shoulder, and there it is." 



Amongst the rhymes is one to make a gramfer-grig " (a woodlouse) 

 curl up into a ball : — 



" Gramfer-grig killed a pig, 



Hung'en up in a corner ; 



G-ranfer cried and piggy died 



And all the fun was over." 



On the Upper G-reensand and Chloritic Marl of 

 Mere and Maiden Bradley, in Wiltshire. By 

 A. J. Jukes Browne, Esq., B.A., F.G-.S., and 



John ScaneS, ESC|. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 

 Feb., 1901, vol. lvii., No. 225, pp. 96—125, illustrated by a folding 

 geological map of the district of Mere and Maiden Bradley— photo-process 

 plates of Maiden Bradley Quarry and Dead Maid Quarry, Mere — and 

 sections in Maiden Bradley Quarry, at Eye Hill Farm, and Dead Maid 

 Quarry, Mere. 



The district treated of in this very valuable paper includes the parishes 

 of Mere, Stourton, Kilmington, Maiden Bradley, and Horningsham. 

 The exposure of the various beds are carefully given, and the different 

 strata described, with full list of the fossils collected from each bed, 

 comprising in all two hundred and forty-six species, many apparently 

 new and un-named. Altogether a very careful, complete, and exhaustive 

 account of the geology of the district of which it treats. 



On a Collection of Palaeolithic Implements from 



Savemake, by Edgar Willett. Journal of the Anthropo- 

 logical Institute, vol, xxxi., pp. 310 — 315. 1901. With two photographic 

 plates of the implements. The Knowle Pit is described, and the great 

 find of flints therein by Mr. Dixon. These implements are described 

 as having a character of their own, and as being nearer to the type of 

 those found at Bemerton than those found at Milford Hill, Salisbury. 

 In the discussion that' followed the reading of this paper, the very 

 remarkable vitreous glaze seen on some of the implements, as well as on 

 some unworked flints in this pit, and unlike anything known elsewhere 

 — except possibly on one or two Egyptian implements — was attributed 

 (1) to the polishing action of blown sand, (2) to a deposit of silica caused 

 by. water filtering through the beds, (3) to the friction caused by the 

 passage of worms ! ! Neither of these explanations will fit all the 

 circumstances. 



The Times, Aug. 22nd, 1901, had a notice of this find. 



The Marlburian, Oct, 29th, 1901, pp. 151-2, has report of Mr. S. B. 

 Dixon's lecture on the subject at Marlborough College. 



