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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



'THE HALIFAX NATURALIST.' 

 As a result of the enthusiasm of a band of hard-working- 

 naturalists such as is possessed by few places of its size, 

 Halifax has produced its valuable little bi-monthly, ' The Halifax 

 Naturalist,' with regularity during- the past eight years. The 

 April 'Extra, Concluding, Double Number' bring-s to a close 

 a short but useful career of still another local publication, 

 thoug-h its loss will be more keenly felt than that of several 

 which have preceded it. That it has done good there can be no 

 question. It has been the means of the very excellent ' Flora 

 of Halifax ' appearing for the benefit of our botanists. In its 

 pages are also to be found many useful notes and records, 

 principally dealing with the district covered by the journal. We 

 can only hope that, for the benefit of future workers, sets are 

 preserved in our principal libraries. 



CURIOUS PREHISTORIC RELICS. 

 Reference was made last year to the excellent guide to the 

 Stone Ag-e antiquities which had been issued by the British 

 Museum (see 'The Naturalist,' April 1903, pp. 98-99). Mr. 

 C. H. Read has just published a sequel to this, dealing with the 

 antiquities of the Bronze Age. It refers to a most interest- 

 ing period in the history of these islands, and a selection of 

 Continental relics is also figured and described. The ' Bronze 



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Fig. A.— Chalk Drum, Folkton, 



