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NATURE NOTES 
MYOXID^. 
Dormouse [Muscardinus avellanarius). 
MURIDS. 
Black Rat {Mus raiius). 
Brown Rat (M. decumanus). 
Common Mouse (M. muscidus). 
Harvest Mouse {M. miniitus). 
Wood-mouse {M. sylvaticus). 
Yellow-necked Mouse (M flavicollis) [?] . 
Field Vole {Evotomys agrestis). 
Bank Vole {Evotomys glareolus). 
Water Vole (£. amphibitis). 
V. — The Deer {Ungulata). 
CERVID^. 
Fallow Deer [Cervus davta). 
Red deer (C. elaphus). 
Roe deer {Capreolus capred). 
VI. — The Whales and Porpoises {Cetacea). 
[As the whales and porpoises are comparatively seldom seen, 
it will be of no interest to enumerate the twenty odd species] . 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Neolithic Man in North-East Surrey. By Walter Johnson and William Wright. 
With a Chapter on Flint by B. C. Polkinghorne. With numerous illustra- 
tions and maps by Sydney Harrowing and Frank Percy Smith. Elliot Stock. 
As Selbornians we altogether dissent from the exclusiveness of the poet’s 
dictum that “ The proper study of mankind is man.” At the same time, man as 
a component part of nature, claims the study of the naturalist, both from the 
anatomical and from the sociological points of view. The broad principles of 
prehistoric archaeology have been laid down by the labours of our President, the 
late Sir Charles Lyell and Sir Joseph Prestwich, Sir John Evans and others; so 
that what is now wanted is detailed local investigations, such as Mr. Pengelly 
carried out at Kent's Cavern and Messrs. Lartet and Christy in Northern France, 
or such as Professor Flinders Petrie is still engaged upon in Egypt. It is a 
thorough local search of this character that the joint authors of this excellent 
little book have undertaken in the parallelogram lying mainly north and east of 
the River Mole, within the county of Surrey. Mr. Johnson is well known to our 
readers as a contributor to Naturr Notes, and the whole work is so largely the 
outcome of the rambles of the Battersea h'ield Club that we feel that we may 
congratulate the Club as a whole on its completion. So keen are “ the pleasures 
of ‘ Hinting,’ ” as the authors term them, so engrossing the interest of discovering 
the implements, the home customs, the methods of cooking, the camps, burial- 
places and road-tracks of our earliest predecessors in the land, that we feel .sure 
that many a general reader with no pretensions to scientific knowledge will, if not 
frightened by the word “ Neolithic ” in its title, derive entertainment as well as 
information from this work. It bristles with topics upon which, did space permit, 
we should like to dilate; hut we must specially mention hir. Polkinghorne’s 
excellent, hut all too brief, chapter on the chemistry of flint and flints. Biblio- 
graphy and index leave nothing to be desired. 
