214 DAVIS: RELATIVE AGE OF THE REMAINS OF MAN IN YORKSHIRE. 
with long heads. The remains of the people hitherto found indicate 
that they were of a peaceable character, following agricultural pursuits; 
the bone hoes would be well suited for working up the light loamy 
soils on the higher ground bordering the lake. The dwellings were 
erected over the water, in all probability as a protection against wild 
animals, rather than against human foes. 
Such are the remains feft for consideration by the primeval 
inhabitants of our county. Much remains unsaid in this brief account 
of them, but sufficient has been brought forward to prove the vast 
interest of the subject; to afford subjects for contemplation by the 
thoughtful mind ; and to exercise the imagination not only of scientists 
bnt of all who take any interest in their earliest ancestry. Whilst the 
Assyrians and the Egyptians were in the height of their civilization, 
the people in this country were neither more nor less than a race of 
savages. The culture and refinement of the x^ssyrians and Egyptians 
has departed from them, and their descendants have become degene- 
rate; meanwhile the English have reached the highest stage of 
civilized developement hitherto attained by man. Such are the con- 
stant changes in human progress. 
ABNORMAL BAROMETRICAL DISTURBANCES IN YORKSHIRE, IN 1883 AND 
1884. BY RICHARD REYNOLDS, ESQ., F.C.S. 
1883. 
ERUPTION OF KRAKATOA. 
The Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. 36, p. 139, contain 
the report of a paper read before the Society, Dec. 13, 1883, entitled 
"Note on a Series of Barometrical Disturbances, which passed over 
Europe between the 27th and the 31st August, 1883. By Robt. H. 
Scott, F.R.S., Secretary to the Meteorological Council." 
Shortly after the publication of the above paper, Prof. T. E. 
Thorpe, F.R.S.,then Professor of Chemistry in the Yorkshire College, 
Leeds, wrote to the " Leeds Mercury " the following account of the 
