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enbuchsee, and he finds that they belong to the following 

 animals, viz., stag, horse, ox, wild boar, pig, dog, beaver, goat, 

 mouse, etc., together with a number of human bones. If the 

 level of the lake continues to sink, it is hoped that further 

 discoveries will be made, and the scientific world in Europe 

 is waiting the result of the engineering operations with keen 

 interest. 



MAN IN THE POST-TEETIAEY OF HUNGARY. 



According to a communication to the Geological Society 

 of Hungary, the remains of a man, associated with post-ter- 

 tiary remains of mammalia, together with a stone hammer, 

 have lately been discovered in the loess deposits of Hungary, 

 in the neighborhood of Brtix, in Bohemia. These were in 

 nearly a complete condition. The cranium strongly resem- 

 bles in its characteristics the w< ell-known fragment from the 

 Neanderthal, although differing in certain peculiarities men- 

 tioned in the article. The skeleton was found lying with the 

 head raised, in a sand-bed of diluvial age, at a depth of two 

 feet from the surface. 13 A, Mb. 1, 1872, 54. 



PEEFOEATION OF FOSSIL SHAEKS' TEETH. 



Mr. J. Charlesworth has exhibited to the Geological Socie- 

 ty of London some sharks' teeth from the crag (pliocene) 

 formation, bearing marks of having been bored by a sharp 

 instrument, which Professor Owen and others considered as 

 possibly due to human agency. 



PEESEEVATION OF MEGALITHIC MONUMENT AT AVEBUEY. 



The great megalithic monument at Avebury, in "Wiltshire, 

 one of the most remarkable in England, has been purchased 

 by that indefatigable archaeologist, Sir John Lubbock, to pre- 

 serve it from threatened destruction. 



LACUSTEINE EEMAINS ON LAKE LEMAN. 



A new discovery of lacustrine remains has lately been 

 made on the borders of Lake Leman, in the Gulf of Condree. 

 Here the piles occupy considerable space, and appear equal 

 in extent to the settlement at Morges, which faces it on the 

 opposite shore. This locality seems to appertain to the 

 Bronze age, all the implements hitherto detected being of 



