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this last mentioned one, has been found in the peat-hog of Felsmosse, about 
three English miles from Lund in the province of Scania. This bone dart 
is seven inches long, round, and compressed ; the back a little thicker, pointed 
towards the top end, round and bent outwards a little ; the inner side some- 
what compressed with five broad incisions, forming teeth bent backwards ; 
the lower end broader and also compressed, the inner edge provided with 
oblique notches forming teeth pointing forward, which thus prevent the 
dart being drawn forward. But what still more shows the perfect likeness 
between the North American and the Scanian instrument is, that if we 
carefully examine the latter, we shall find it scratched transversely in two 
places, the one at the place where the strings in the American one attach 
the points to the shaft, and the other a little way higher up, where the 
shaft ends in the American implement, and where the points are tied round ; 
the Scanian is in other respects entirely even and smooth.” This is striking 
enough, and is calculated to establish a strong analogy between the two 
nations, but the sketches the author has given of the two instruments 
leave no doubt in the reader’s mind as to the identity of the races which 
constructed them. Here we must say a word of praise in favour of the 
admirable plates appended to the volume, and which are in the highest 
degree creditable to the Swedish lithographer. Tout entier, the Stone Age ” 
is a book which few who take up will fail to read through with pleasure. 
The style is clear, the arguments forcible without being exaggerated, the 
testimony ample, and the mode of treatment startling and fascinating. 
FARADAA' AS A DISCOVERER.* 
I N his usually brilliant and forcible style, Professor Tyndall has given us a 
biography of Faraday the Philosopher. The reader will perhaps think 
that the life of the Man should have been rather selected than that of 
the Discoverer; but those who know anything of Faraday are aware 
that his love of science was so pure and unalloyed, so thoroughly for the 
pursuit itself rather than the fame which attached to it, that the history 
of his work, and of his many efforts to search out Nature’s phenomena, is 
absolutely his whole biography. The book which Messrs. Longmans have 
issued is the report of lectures delivered before the Institution, but it is 
enhanced by the addition of two admirable portraits of kind, genial, pensive 
Faraday, taken at different periods of life, but both faithful records of the 
face which frequenters of the Institution love to look back on. Dr. 
Tyndall has traced the gradual progress of Faraday’s discoveries and ex- 
periments in Physical Science, from the time when he first became 
the assistant of Sir Humphrey Davy. This account, besides its interest 
from the associations with the man, has an intrinsic worth which will be 
highly appreciated by the physicist. The sketch is enriched by numerous 
letters written by Faraday to Dr. Tyndall andj other fellow-workers in 
* ^‘Faraday as a Discoverer.” By John Tyndall. London: Lono-mans. 
1868. 
