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Evolution of the Fish-Hook.—"The Evolution of the Fishing-Hook" has been made the subject of a study by Mr. Edward Lovett, who discerns the first implement of the kind in the flint "gorges," and some of the flints, which are called "knives," of the paleolithic "finds." They were fastened, perhaps, to a line of twisted vegetable fiber, or to a thong of one of the whip-like marine algae, by being suspended around the middle. When baited, the "hook" would stand up and down. Swallowed by the fish and jerked up, it would be brought at right angles to the line and stand across the throat of the 