Notes and Extracts 



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Wall paintings by Palaeolithic Man have been recently 

 studied by M. Emile Cartailhac and the Abbe H. Breuil in a 

 cavern at Altamira, in Spain. " The cavern is a series of 

 large chambers connected by passage ways. There is no 

 evidence of its having been occupied by either man or beast 

 since the close of the Quaternary, at which time the entrance 

 was completely closed by a fall of earth and stones." Before 

 primitive man used it as an art gallery it had been in the 

 possession of cave bears. The frescoes cover the walls of 

 every part of the cave ; unknown signs, as well as animals, are 

 represented, and all do not belong to a single epoch. They 

 exhibit great variety of technique. There are line engravings 

 more or less deeply incised, but the majority of the figures 

 are represented in colour, either red or black, and, for the 

 most part, in a single colour. 



A cuckoo was brought to the Haslemere Museum on 

 May 3, which had met its death by flying against a telegraph 

 wire. There was a deep cat immediately below the sternum. 



- The nest of a long-tailed titmouse containing eight eggs 

 was found near Killinghurst on May 3, 1906. 



Dr. Moore Russell Fletcher, in his treatise on " Sus- 

 pended Animation " (Boston, 1890), pp. 7, 8, observes: "The 

 common pond trout, when thrown into snow, will soon freeze, 

 remain so for days, and when put into cold water to remove 

 the frost becomes as lively as ever." 



" When residing in New Brunswick, in 1842, we went to 

 a lake to secure some trout, which were frozen in the snow 

 and kept for use. While there, we saw men with long wooden 

 tongs catching frost fish from the salt water at the entrance 

 of a brook. The fish were thrown upon the ice in great 

 quantities. We had a barrel of them put up with snow and 

 kept frozen, and in a cool place. For six or seven weeks 



