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a recent meeting of the Bradford Scientific Society, as reported in the 'Yorkshire Weekly Post,' Mr. W.E. Preston read a paper dealing with the prehistoric remains to be found on Rombald's Moor. After describing generally the various classes of antiquities of prehistoric date to be found on the moors, Mr. Preston alluded to a nearly obliterated circle which he noticed in 1892 on Rivvock Edge, overlooking Keighley. The diameter was about sixty yards, and the wall of the circle was composed of loose stones and earth. In the centre was a large rock covered with peat and heather. On examination of a small portion which was exposed, this rock proved to be inscribed with a number of small and rather indistinct cup and ring marks. This aroused curiosity, and on removing the peat the whole surface of the rock proved to be covered with such markings. This was perhaps the only case in which an inscribed rock had been found enclosed within a circle on the Yorkshire moors. Of this rock Mr. Preston exhibited photographs; and speaking of flint implements, he described the places on the moors in which the searcher after these antiquities was most likely to meet with reward, and showed a very large and valuable collection which had been the result of his own researches.

a recent scientific excursion made by the 'Princesse-Alice' in the neighbourhood of the Azores, a Sperm Whale was captured, which has proved material for a communication to the 'Bulletin du Museum d'histoire naturelle,' by S.A.S. Le Prince Albert de Monaco, entitled "Notes sur un Cachalot." This animal, which attained a length of "13 m. 70," afforded considerable information as to the parasites which infest Cetaceans. The author describes its stomach as containing a considerable number of worms resembling Nematoids, in the "tube digestif" many "Helminthes"; in the blubber were found some Cysticerci, whilst Cyamidæ were scattered on the epidermis.

vol. iii. of 'Novitates Zoologicæ,' recently completed, Mr. C.W. Andrews, F.G.S., has contributed two parts of a memoir "On the Extinct Birds of the Chatham Islands." This is the result of the examination, in the Rothschild Museum at Tring, of "an immense collection of bird remains from the Chatham Islands," consisting of many thousands of bones, mostly in good condition, and including numerous skulls and other portions

Zool. 4th ser. vol. I., March, 1897.