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Flint Tools Made 4,000 Years Ago

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Recent excavations by Dr. J. F. S. Stone at the Easton Down flint mines show that 4,000 years jago, while Neolithic man busied himself with quarrying suitable fint at anything from 9ft to 16ft. below the surface, the more skilled of his brother work- men sat on the edges of the pits and chipped the nodules into the required shapes as they were passed up to them.

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Shed antlers and those of slaughtered deer, used as picks, rakes, and levers for the original digging of these pits, as well as the massive shoulder blades of loxen, used for shovelling out the Jchalk rubble from them-the former well worn down and the Jatter showing ample signs of wear and tear-are also shown in the same exhibition.

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BALKAN BELLES AND IDEAS OF BEAUTY

Story Of The "Little Englishwoman"

"SYMPATHETIC. MAGIC”

Some strange ideas of beauty

MEMORIAL TO SCOTSboratories of the Massachusetts as held in the Balkans were de

ASTRONOMER

Unveiled By Princess Arthur

Institute of Technology, testing the scribed by Mrs. M. M. Hasluck properties of fluorine, discovered a (London) in the Anthropology new-deadly gas, which has been section of the Britain Associa Wing of Death", was described at tion. In Greek Macedonia the a meeting of the American Chemi-beauty's head is shaped like a cal Society in Cleveland by. Dr. pear, she declared: In Albania, George H. Cady.

nothing was more admired than Princess Arthur of Connaught at In addition to its poisoning qual the flat effect. A round-faced Inverey. near Braemar, unveiled a ties, the gas also explodes when girl in Albania could not hope to memorial to John Lamont, a native sufficiently concentrated. Its small succeed. She would be known of Deeside, who became Astronomer est unit is composed of an atom of as "melon-fa e." Royal of Bavaria.

nitrogen, an atom, of fluorine and In Greek Macedonia, she de Professor H. M. MacDonald, three atoms of oxygen, and whenclared, the ideal of beauty was Aberdeen University, presided at a small amount is inhaled coughing a long head, and when a new- the ceremony, which was attended starts, after which a deep breath born baby looked like being by Professor F. J. M. Stratton, Pre-even of fresh air produces very round-faced its head was tight- sident of the Royal Astronomical great irritation of the lungs, thusly bound for weeks to produce] Society, Professor Otto Struve, re- resembling the effects of phosgene. an effect like a pear. presenting American astronomers,

Although apparently harmless Sir Frank Dyson, late Astronomer and colourless the gas has a strong Royal, and other members of the odour and is very reactive chem British Association assembled in cally. Aberdeen.

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pallingly high in Albania, she

Infantile mortality

continued, and the mother strap- ped her baby to a board to make Of the discovery Dr. Cady said, firmer its hold on life a clear Sir James Jeans, President of the "It was found that the reaction of example of sympathetic magic. British Association, in an oration, fluorine with cold moderately. diluted | Lord Raglan, acting PresidentĮ

1st Nov. said that Lamont was one of the nitric acid produced a gas hitherto of the section, disagreed, and many distinguished astronomera undescribed in chemical literature. suggested that.it was not a case whom Deeside had given to the Further research revealed the of evolution in Albania, but al world. These included Sir David chemical nature of the compound. case of degeneration from the Gill, James Gregory, James Fergu-I learned of its explosive tendency cradle to the board. He propound- son, and Lord Lindsay.

quite suddenly and violently when aled a counter theory. Professor J. A. Carroll, Aberdeen large flask I was holding blew up.

Burled In Boats University, presented Princess Ar After that the compound was pre-1 thur with a glass goblet as a memen. pared in apparatus something like boat and coffine were shaped like The cradle was shaped like a to of the occasion..

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