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marine woods on the English coast, 
and other subfossil records, and the 
numerous prehistoric and historic speci- 
mens of yew, which I have seen in the 
Science and Arts Museum at DubHn 
and in other museums in Britain, show 
that formerly the yew was more com- 
mon. In Sweden, the tree is, generally 
speaking, not rare ; but when I was 
living at Stockholm, in the autumn 
of 1897, I saw every day, for two 
months, a great many branches brought 
over from the islands for sale at the 
market. In Denmark, the yew still 
occurs in one place, near Vejle, where 
it was discovered by English engineers 
during the construction of a railway. 
But the National Museum of Copen- 
hagen and other Danish museums con- 
tain many prehistoric objects made of 
yew which for the most part at least 
were worked there. In Holland, and 
in several districts of Germany, for 
