clyiii GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND 



Chapter XXIV. Notes on objects of stone from the caves 

 of Les Eyzies, valley of Vezere, Perigord, by Professor T. 

 Rupert Jones. 



Chapter XXV. (extending into Part XVII.). Fossil man 

 from La Madelaine and Laugerie Basse, by E. T. Hamy : 



" The human bones from La Madelaine, Laugerie Basse, 

 Bruniquel, etc., have recently been compared with those of 

 the rock shelter of Cro-Magnon, and, thanks to the exagger- 

 ated ethnic characters of the latter, a number of peculiarities 

 of the second order, which at first escaped notice, have been 

 recognized and appreciated. We have been able up to a 

 certain point to classify the characters, the degree of the 

 fixity of which has been brought out by all these compari- 

 sons, consequently to determine which are the constant feat- 

 ures of a race, and which are individual variation, and the 

 amount of the latter, and finally, with the aid of this deter- 

 mination, to commence the study of the extension of the 

 ethnic group in space and time." Part XVII., containing the 

 closing chapters and full indexes, finishes up the work. 



The origin and spread of the Basques is eliciting a great 

 deal of discussion in France and the rest of Europe. Dr. 

 Paul Broca, in Revue d^ Anthropologic, No. 1, 1875, has a 

 long and interesting article on the subject. In the Journal 

 of the Anthropological Institute, the Rev. Wentworth Web- 

 ster reviews at length the article of Boyd Dawkins in the 

 Fortnightly of September, 1874, on the same subject. 



At the Geographical Exposition, Paris, a prehistoric chart 

 of France was exhibited by M. Mortillet. The same author 

 has completed a scheme of French early history. 



The Paleolithic Age he divides into four epochs : 



St. Acheul. (Almond-shaped flaked axe.) The oldest. 



Moustier. (Flint arrow-heads and scrapers, bilateral flake.) 



Solutre. (Bay-leaf shaped arrow-head, bilateral chipping.) 



Madelaine. (Barbed bone arrow-heads and flint knives.) 



The Neolithic Age has one epoch : 



Robenhausen. (Polished stone axes, flint arrow-heads, 

 serrate chipping.) 



The Bronze Age has two epochs : 



Morgien. (First appearance of bronze.) 



Larnaudien. (Objects hammered out, greater variety and 

 finish.) 



