II 2 
NATURE NOTES 
the bibliography, where also room might be found for mention of special modern 
treatises on fonts, misereres, tympana, and even brasses. Only two slips have, 
however, arrested our attention : Greenstead Church is built of oak and not 
(P- 35 ) of chestnut logs ; whilst presumably Hawkesmore’s work at O.xford, men- 
tioned on p. 76, was at Chicheley’s foundation, the College of All Souls. 
Leaden Font, of the Late Nor.man Period, 
Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey. 
(From “Our Homeland Churches,” by kind permission of the Homeland 
Association.) 
Ightham : 1 he Story of a Kentish Village and its Surroundings. By F. J. 
Bennett. With contributions by W. J. Lewis Abbott, E. W. Filkins, 
Benjamin Harrison,]. Russell Larkby, J. Scott Temple and H. J. Osborne 
White. Pp. viii. and 158. 8J inches x inches. Numerous illustrations 
and a map on the scale of two miles to an inch. Homeland Association. 
Price 7s. 6d. net. 
It may be doubted whether any village as small as Ightham can boast an 
equal variety of interests alike geological and archaeological. Glastonbury, with 
a British village, a legendary romance and a long monastic glory, is a small 
town ; the cornfields that cover Silchester yield only Roman remains; and even 
the hill- village of Old Sarum, with a story reaching to 1832, has a shorter record. 
Ightham undoubtedly deserved a monograph. That it has attracted the attention 
of the scientific world is owing to the painstaking life-work of a born observer, 
Benjamin Harrison, whom Mr. Bennett rightly terms the “hero” of his book ; 
and Mr. Harrison’s many friends will value this volume, if only for the excellent 
photograph of him by Mr. Russell Larkby, which forms its frontispiece. In some 
respects this humble Kentish village suffers for the attention it has attracted. So 
