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of the subject, but insisted on its absorbing interest. The large 
literature which had lately sprung up with reference to the com- 
mon house fly and its importance from a medical point of view, 
suggested that much remained to be done in other directions. 
The lecture was illustrated by a fine selection of lantern slides, and 
at the close a discussion took place and a hearty vote of thanks 
was given to the Lecturer." 
434th GENERAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY. 
April 3rd, 1913. 
(Western Daily Press, April 4th, 1913). 
"A meeting of this Society was held at the University. The 
President (Miss Roper) announced the election, as ordinary 
members, of Dr. Marion Linton and Major T. D. Broughton, R.E. 
"Dr. Prowse exhibited stick-insects that had lived on privet 
leaves for many months in his house. Specimens of the common 
Alexanders from St. Vincent's Rocks, badly infested by a peculiar 
fungus, were shown by the President ; and Miss Reynolds brought 
implements of the Stone Age, with photographs of bone caverns 
visited by her in the Dordogne district. 
" Mr. Cedric Bucknall then read a paper on 'Some Pre-historic 
Rock-figures,' illustrated by rubbings and drawings. 
"The rock-figures in question are situated in the Italian 
Maritime Alps, at an elevation of from 6,600 to 7,600 feet, about 
the heads of four of five valleys, all lying directly underneath the 
crest of Monte Bego (8,900 feet). This region is approached from 
the south through the valley of the Roya, whence mule-tracks 
lead to the Vallone delle Meraviglie, the Val Malmasca, Val 
Valauretta, and Val Fontanalba ; the nearest place of any import- 
ance being San Dalmazzo di Tenda, a summer resort on the 
Tenda-Turin route at about 2,300 feet. Prior to Mr. Bucknall 's 
visit, so far as can be ascertained, only a very few Englishmen, 
at long intervals, have attempted to explore this interesting and 
beautiful district ; and yet it is believed that there is no other 
place in Europe, or perhaps in the world, where such an immense 
surface of rock is covered with so many and so varied pre-historic 
engravings. It is to Mr. Clarence Bicknell, of Bordighera, who 
for fifteen years has passed the summer months in these mountain 
valleys, that a thorough investigation of these petroglyphs is due. 
During that period he has copied over 10,600 figures, and he thinks 
there may still remain from 500 to 1,000 more. The rocks upon 
which the figures have been cut are almost without exception of 
