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conifers. The leaves are attacked and soon killed, but do not 

 fall to the gTound, being- held to the branch by fine threads of 

 a dark-coloured mycelium. By this means large tufts of dead 

 leaves accumulate on the branches of attacked seedlings. — 

 C. Cross LAND, 3rd May igos- 



In the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Liverpool Marine 

 Biology Committee'"" there is a valuable appendix, by Messrs. 

 P. ^I. C. Kermode and W. A. Herdman, dealing with the 

 antiquities of the Isle of Man. In this the authors have not 

 only gathered together all the information available relating to 



the early history of the island, but have also included particulars 

 of the results of their own excavations on very important sites. 

 Not the least interesting of these refers to the Meayll stone 

 circle, originally described in a pamphlet in 1893 and long out 

 of print. In addition to this and other stone circles, the paper 

 deals with ancient pottery, bronze and stone implements, cists, 

 cairns, carved stones, runic inscriptions, ancient buildings, coins, 

 rush-light holders, and, in fact, all the numerous and interesting 

 forms of relics of by-gone days that appear to abound on the 

 island. Most of these are figured, a feature which adds con- 

 siderably to the value of the pamphlet. By the courtesy of 

 Prof. Herdman w^e are permitted to reproduce three of the 

 illustrations. The first (Plate XIII.) is from a photograph of 

 a skeleton of the Irish Elk, recovered from Close-y-garey in 



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MANX ANTIQUITIES. 



Bronze Weapons, from the Isle of Man, 



* Issued at the Biolog-ical Station at Port Erin at is. 6d. 



Naturalist, 



