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associated specimens of any interest were recovered ; but at 
the lower end of the same valley, about a quarter of a mile 
distant, teeth of mammoth and woolly rhinoceros have been 
found. Like the only other British specimen hitherto dis- 
covered — that described by Professor Boyd Dawkins from the 
Creswell caves — the drawing is made on a fragment of rib, 
and the neck of the horse is fringed by line lines, which 
indicate the short hog-mane usual in sketches made by the 
Palaeolithic race. 
CONFERENCE OF BRITISH GLACIALISTS. 
At a meeting of the Yorkshire Geological Society held at 
Leeds on March 19th, a letter was read from the President 
(Mr. R. H. Tiddeman) suggesting that during the coming 
autumn — probably in October — there should be a Conference 
of British Glacialists in order that the present position of 
glacial geology might be thoroughly reviewed from every point 
of view. The suggestion was unanimously agreed to, and the 
Conference will be held at Leeds and will last a week. In addition 
to papers and discussions, there will be excursions to the 
principal glacial centres of the North of England. Glacialists 
from all parts of the country will be invited to take part. 
A Committee was formed to carry out the arrangements, and 
consisted of Mr. R. H. Tiddeman, Professor P. F. Kendall, 
Mr. J. W. Stather, Mr. T. Sheppard, Mr. A. Gilligan and Mr. 
A. Wilson. 
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 
At the request of the President of the Second Entomo- 
logical Congress, held at Oxford, Mr. John W. Taylor delivered 
an Address upon “ Geographical Distribution and Dominance 
in Relation to Evolution and Phylogeny,’ a reprint of which lies 
before us. This Address covers practically the same ground as 
his Presidential Address to the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union in 
the same year, but the argumentation was more pointedly 
directed for the enlistment of entomological research in 
working out the same problems. So far the state of know- 
ledge of insect phylogeny is by no means commensurate with 
that we possess as regards the terrestrial mollusca and the 
human race, and also of the Oligochaet worms, and therefore 
the striking correspondence between the evolution of the 
various groups and their range in space — possibly also in 
time — which is seen in these groups, has still to be worked out 
as regards insects. Mr. Taylor states that distribution is 
regulated by law, and is intimately associated with phylo- 
genetic evolution, the well-known facts of history and the 
known presence of the lowest types of human life in the 
regions most remote from the probable centre of the greatest 
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