Notes and Comments. 



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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION REPORT. 



The Report of the British Association for the meeting held 

 at DubHn in September last was published as we were going to 

 press with our May number. This is eight months after the 

 meeting, notwithstanding the fact that practically all the 

 volume was in type at Dublin. Surely the paging, indexing, 

 and binding of the volume should not take so long. We are 

 now thinking of the next meeting at Winnipeg, and at this 

 late date the Dublin volume has lost much of its value. Now 

 that the British Association has got a new Secretary, dare we 

 express the hope that he v/ill hurry forward the publication of 

 these reports ? 



THE SOLITARY ANT 



In his paper on ' Glacial Survivals,' which appeared in this 

 journal for August and September 1907, Mr. F. Elgee made fre- 

 quent reference to that interesting specimen, the Solitary Ant 



Solitary Ant. 



(Mutilla eiiropcea), which occurs in North-East Yorkshire. 

 The illustration herewith is an enlarged photograph of a 

 female Solitary Ant, the second Yorkshire example, from the 

 moors near Robin Hood's Bay. This will enable our readers 

 to recognise the species should they come across it. 



A PRIMITIVE DREADNOUGHT. 



In this journal for June 1905 we gave an illustration of the 

 pre-historic boat at Brigg, Lincolnshire, which had reposed 

 buried in the clay for two thousand years or more, until un- 

 earthed during the construction of a gasometer. It then 



1909 June I 



