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the people who deposited their dead in the caves. With the 

 skeleton were found a tooth of the cave bear ( Ursus spelcens), 

 bones of ruminants, pachyderms, and rodents, and a number 

 of shells of edible marine mollusks; also implements of bone 

 and stone, the latter merely chipped, and mostly consisting 

 of sandstone, limestone, and other materials, but rarely of 

 flint, as in the case of the other discoveries. No implements 

 or ornaments were found with the children. 



Parts XIV. and XV. of the " Reliquise Aquitanicse " have 

 appeared during the year, and also Part III. of the first 

 volume of the "Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 

 de Lyon." The first part (Livraison) contained "Etudes sur 

 i;i Station Prehistorique de Solutre, Saone-et-Loire, par M. 

 PAbbe Ducrost et M. le docteur L. Lortet." The second part 

 contains, I. " Note sur les Breches osseuses des Environs de 

 Bastia (Corse), par M. Arnould Locard ;" II. " Etude sur le 

 I^agomys Corsicanns, parM. le docteur Lortet ; III. "Etudes 

 Paleontologiques dans le Bassin du Rhone, periode Quarter- 

 naire, par M. le docteur Lortet and M. E. Chautre." The third 

 part contains a continuation of the last article of the second 

 part. 



In the early part of the year two caves in the neighbor- 

 hood of SchafThausen, Switzerland, which had long been 

 known and often visited by the curious, though never with 

 a view to investigate their contents, were explored by two 

 gentlemen, MM. Merk and Joos, with results far surpassing 

 their expectations. In digging into the floors of the caves, 

 they found in abundance the broken bones and the teeth of 

 animals characteristic of a former fauna, such as the aurochs 

 (bison), reindeer, elk, bear, wild horse, Alpine hare, arctic 

 fox, and other species of fox no longer existing in Switz- 

 erland. The mammoth and rhinoceros were represented by 

 plates of teeth. Bones of birds occurred in great numbers, 

 among them those of the wild duck and white grouse. 

 Traces of domestic animals were, on the other hand, entirely 

 wanting. One of the caves, situated near Thayngen, proved 

 particularly rich in articles of reindeer-horn needles, pierc- 

 ers, and arrow-heads, which are said to be worked with great 

 precision. Flint flakes used in making them abounded. But 

 the most interesting object found at this place is a delinea- 

 tion traced on a broad piece of reindeer-horn, representing a 



