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lectures, the coming season, before the Glasgow Lecture As- 

 sociation, on Kent's Cavern its testimony to the antiquity 

 of man. 



Mr. Brooke Pennington (Dec. 8th, 18^4) read a paper be- 

 fore the Anthropological Institute on the tumuli and stone 

 circles near Castleton, in Derbyshire. He gave a full ac- 

 count of the explorations of the barrow of Eldon Hill, forty- 

 nine feet in diameter, containing remains of man, horse, rat, 

 and pieces of wrought antler. The Rev. S. Magens Mello 

 also spoke of a bone-cave in Cresswell Crags, on the eastern 

 border of Derbyshire. 



In France the greatest activity prevails with reference to 

 researches in definite localities, and concerning the strata of 

 population successively inhabiting the different departments. 

 In addition to the Bulletin de la Societe a 1 " 1 Anthropologic, 

 two able periodicals, Revue d' Anthropologic, and Materiaux 

 pour V Histoire primitive et naturelle de V Homme, are devoted 

 entirely to anthropological investigations. 



Before the French Association, Dr. Lagneau read a long 

 and scholarly memoir on the ethnogeny of the populations 

 of the northwest of France, passing in review the different 

 peoples concerned in the ancient and present occupation of 

 the region between the sea, the Saone, and the Loire. In 

 prehistoric times, some dolichocephalic skulls, and two kinds 

 of brachycephalic skulls the one kind small, the other large 

 and voluminous assert the existence of at least three dis- 

 tinct races. The author cited both classic authorities and 

 modern researches to establish his conclusions ; and from the 

 discussion awakened Ave conclude this to be one of the most 

 important papers read. 



M. Chantre also read a report on excavations made by 

 the Archaeological Society of Charente. M. Philip Salmon 

 gave a description of his discoveries at Grand None, com- 

 mune of Vinneuf (Yonne). M. de Baye reported having ex- 

 tracted from the grottoes of Baye (Marne) 54 skulls : 28 of 

 men, 24 of women, and 2 of children. 



Parts XVI. and XVII. of " Reliquias AquitanicaB" have 

 appeared, the former containing : 



Chapter XXIII. Observations on the birds whose bones 

 have been found in the caves of the southwest of France, 

 by Alphonse Milne-Edwards. 



