Notes and Comments. 
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we should like to put in a claim in favour of Yorkshire ! 
In The Antiquary for 1908, we figured and described some 
excellent fish hooks of flint which had been made by a well- 
known Yorkshire character, ‘Flint Jack/ It is difficult to 
understand why Neolithic Man should make a fish-hook of a 
brittle material such as flint, seeing that it would certainly 
snap before the fish could be hooked by it y. especially when 
thorns and other suitable objects were so handy. 
‘ THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.’ 
* The Advancement of Science, 1922,’ is the title given 
to the volume containing the addresses of the President of 
the British Association, and the Presidents of Sections, at 
the Ninetieth Annual Meeting recently held at Hull.* The 
addresses are : — ‘ Some Aspects of Animal Mechanism,’ by 
Professor Sir Charles S. Sherrington ; ‘ The Theory of Num- 
bers,’ by Professor G. H. Hardy ; ‘ The Organisation of 
Research, and Problems in the Carbohydrates,’ by Principal 
J. C. Irvine ; ‘ The Physical Geography of the Coal Swamps,’ 
by Professor P. F. Kendall ; ‘ The Progression of Life in the 
Sea,’ by Dr. E. J. Allen ; ‘ Human Geography, First Prin- 
ciples and some Applications,’ by Dr. Marion Newbigin ; 
‘ Equal Pay for Men and Women for Equal Work,’ by Pro- 
fessor F. Y. Edgeworth ; ‘ Railway Problems in Australia,’ 
by Professor T. Hudson Beare ; ‘ The Study of Man,’ by 
H. J. E. Peake ; ‘ The Efficiency of Man, and the Factors 
which Influence it,’ by Professor E. P. Cathcart ; ‘The In- 
fluence of the late W. H. R. Rivers on the Development of 
Psychology in Great Britain,’ by Professor C. S. Myers ; 
‘ The Transport of Organic Substances in Plants,’ by Pro- 
fessor H. H. Dixon ; ‘ Educational and School Science,’ by 
Sir Richard A. Gregory ; ‘ The Proper Position of the Land- 
owner in Relation to the Agricultural Industry,’ by the 
Rt. Hon. Lord Bledisloe. 
SIR RICHARD GREGORY. 
At the Leeds University recently a number of honorary 
degrees Were conferred, among them being Doctor of Science 
upon Sir Richard Gregory, editor of Nature. In presenting 
Sir Richard, Professor Smithells stated : — ‘ For half a century 
now it has been the great good fortune of British science to 
possess a central journal authentic for the whole wide realm of 
natural knowledge, acting week by week as the market-place 
for all who are seriously engaged in the pursuit of science. 
It is for his labour and leadership in this invaluable auxiliary 
service that Sir Richard Gregory will be first acclaimed in 
1922 Nov. 1 
* Published by the Association at 6s. 
