IN NATURE of May 19, p. 372, reference is made to iron currency-bars and “early British water-clocks.” The discovery of the true nature of the currency-bars is not, as is implied, a recent one, but was made in 1905 by Mr. Reginald Smith (see his paper, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, vol. xx., pp. 179–94). Similarly, the “early British water-clocks” were first authoritatively dealt with by Mr. Smith in 1907 (see his paper, ibid., vol. xxi., pp. 319 sqq.). I understand that Dr. Newton Friend made this quite clear in the paper referred to, and gave his references.

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