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briner forth richer fruit. Several new lacustrian villages in 

 Switzerland have been discovered, some of them furnishing 

 remains of very great interest ; and the detection of a Vi- 

 king boat, many centuries old, in Norway, has excited much 

 attention among the Scandinavians. A prehistoric corpse, 

 clothed in grave wrappings, and in a remarkable state of 

 preservation, was discovered in a peat-bog in Holstein, and 

 has furnished the means not only of determining the cranial 

 peculiarities of the people, but of the actual nature of the 

 dress of that period. 



In America, interesting remains have been brought to light 

 in various mounds of the West, and especially in Alaska, 

 through the untiring efforts of Mr. William H. Dall, of the 

 Coast Survey. Dr.Leidy records also the occurrence of flint 

 implements of very great antiquity in Wyoming Territory. 

 The discovery of a well-preserved skeleton of post-tertiary 

 formation in Hungary, and of skeletons of undoubted antiq- 

 uity, perhaps even of the reindeer period, at Laugerie-Basse, 

 in France, and nearMentone (Baousse-Rousse), in Italy, have 

 also attracted great attention. 



A paper by Dr. Schmidt, of Essen, upon prehistoric man, 

 takes the ground that man is of greater antiquity in America 

 than in any other part of the world, the remains of his bony 

 frame-work, as also of the implements fashioned by his hand, 

 occurring in this country apparently in undoubted connec- 

 tion with the pliocene period, while the earliest known in 

 Europe belong to the post-pliocene. It must be always re- 

 membered, however, that such evidence is only the expres- 

 sion of actual discovery, and that, judging from analogy, man 

 must have originated in the Old World. 



In the remaining mammalia, the quadrumana have been il- 

 lustrated by the discovery of a new species of monkey in 

 Thibet, and by a fossil species in Italy, and a fossil lemuroid 

 in Wyoming, Professor Marsh being the fortunate discoverer 

 of the latter object. 



A new species of mastodon, from New Mexico, has been 

 characterized by Professor Leidy, probably superior in size 

 to the better known Mastodon americanus ; and remains of 

 the mammoth, both European and American, have been de- 

 tected during the year. 



The birth of a young hippopotamus and of a young rhinoc- 



