Items of Interest May 1, 1915 Issue

Items of Interest

At a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries for Scotland, recently held in Edinburgh, George Macdonald, LL.D., F. S. A. Scot., gave a communication on "A Fresh Survey of the Roman Wall from Inveravon to Falkirk," explaining in his opening remarks that he had been engaged on this work for some years, aided by a grant from the Carnegie research fund. On the farm of Mumrills, midway between Falkirk and Inveravon, the site of a forgotten fort had been discovered and its approximate dimensions ascertained. From the bank of the Avon to Rosehall, in the heart of the town of Falkirk, the line of the wall had now been laid down with practical certainty, and it was so satisfactory that the results of the present inquiry were being adopted as an official record by the ordnance survey.

The second communication, by the director of the museum, described the excavations conducted by the society on Traprain Law, south of East Linton, in 1914. About one hundred feet square had been excavated, yielding harness mountings and other objects of bronze, quantities of hand-made pottery of native fabrication, and many pieces of Roman ware of late first-century date, also coins of Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius, indicating an occupation into the Antonine period during the middle of the second century, were found, as well as molds of stone for ingots and segments of armlets of colored glass and jet. The relics have all been presented to the National Museum by A. J. Balfour of Whittingham, on whose property the hill is situated.

In denying a motion filed by the Kellogg Toasted Corn Flakes Company against the government's petition for an injuction to restrain the company from fixing the resale price of its product, the United States circuit court of appeals, in a decision just filed in the district court at Detroit, rules that the owner of a patented carton cannot dictate the selling price of the goods which the carton contains. The government's petition, filed in December, 1912, attacked the selling plan of the defendant company, stating that it specified the price which the jobber, the wholesaler, and the retailer should charge for its product. Arguments in the case were heard last July. In its motion to dismiss the government's petition, the Kellogg company contended that its ownership of a patent on the carton in which its product was marketed gave it the right to fix the price of the product.

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