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indeed, has been noted by that trustworthy antiquary the 
Rev. Joseph Hunter. At one of the meetings of the 
Archaeological Institute, in 1850, he brought forward a fac- 
simile of an old warrant which he had discovered in the 
Record Office, in which the date (1325) is expressed in one 
part in Roman and in another Arabic numerals. It is a war- 
rant from Hugh le Dispenser to Bonifez de Peruche and his 
partners, merchants of a company, to pay forty pounds. On 
the face of it, as executed by the English Chancellor, it is 
dated “ the XIX° year” of Edward II. It bears, however, 
the endorsement of the Italian merchant on the back, and 
he has endorsed it February, 1325, in Arabic figures. I 
do not know that I could conclude with a better illustration 
of the probability of the account, which I have adopted 
from M. Chasles and M. Martin, of the Arabic numerals 
having come to Europe from India, not first by means of 
the Moors, but through the Italians, since we find an ordi- 
nary Italian merchant using them in an ordinary business 
transaction, at least two centuries before their common use 
in English bookkeeping and commerce. 
“Notes on the Victoria Cave, Settle,” by William 
Brockbank, F.G.S. 
The discoveries of the antiquities and animal remains in 
the Victoria Cave have been described to the Society by Mr. 
Boyd Dawkins, and are very fully set forth by Mr. R. Tid- 
deman, F.G.S., in the Geological Magazine for January 
1873 (Yol. x., No. 1). 
# Mr. Tiddeman s views are shortly as follows. (1) He 
gives a section of the cave, shewing a cavern in the face of 
a limestone cliff, the floor of which is covered thickly 
over with stratified deposits, sloping inwards from the 
entrance, and against the edges of which rests a talus of 
Breccia, having below it a stratum of glacial drift clay with 
boulders. The latter he shews as just occurring above the 
