ANALYSIS OF PREHISTORIC BRONZE.—Mr. A. Leslie Armstrong publishes, in Man for September, a number of analyses of bronze implements and founder's metal made by Prof. Desch in connexion with the work of the Bronze Age Implements Committee of the British Association. A palstave found at Windsor in 1864, formerly in the Hull Museum and now in the Ash-moleum Museum, Oxford, was one of the most interesting of the objects examined. Its metal had an abnormal appearance, and on analysis it proved to contain so much oxygen and sulphur that the metal was “hopelessly brittle” and could only be regarded as a founder's failure. The figures were copper 78.79, tin 16.49, nickel 0.49, lead 0.09, sulphur 0.68, total 96.54. Three implements from a hoard found at Westcroft, Shelf, near Halifax, were also brittle owing to excess of sulphur, the analysis of one revealing 1.50 of sulphur, copper 86.32, tin 12.14. The Everthorpe Hoard of thirteen socketed celts, a gouge, and three lumps of metal, now in the Hull Museum, was also examined, and revealed the surprising fact that the metal was practically pure copper, a condition unusual in English objects. The celts are unfinished foundry specimens and the analyses of three samples were practically identical, showing 98 to 99 per cent, of copper. A socketed celt, however, from the same hoard showed the remarkable result of copper 66.88, tin 10.54, and lead 22.36. Such an amount of lead is probably unique.