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It explained his religious conceptions, and confirmed the dis- 

 covery of the figure of a goddess in the caverns of Baye 

 (Marne). M. Broca remarks that perforated skulls were 

 found also at the last-named station. Amon^ the skulls 

 dug up by General Faidherbe were found two in the same 

 condition. Dr. Chil, from the Canary Islands, said that per- 

 forated skulls had been found in the ancient burial-places of 

 his country. 



Attention was also called to an example from the grotto 

 of Lorde, upon which M. Hamy and M. Chaplain -Duparc 

 gave some interesting details. A similarly perforated or 

 trepanned skull was found by Mr. E. G. Squier among some 

 ancient Peruvian crania collected by him. Bull. Soc. cVAn- 

 thro., 1874, 2 fasc, pp. 185, 205, and 1875, p. 542, 555 ; Comp- 

 tes Rendus, 1874, LXXIX. ; Pop. Sci. Monthly, Sept., 1875, 

 p. 607. 



Before the French Association, 1875, M. Chauvet reported 

 the same phenomenon in the tumuli of Charente. A discus- 

 sion by Dr. Broca and others ensued. See also in Part II. 

 of this paper under Sanson, 



M. Choquet, in his excavations near Montereau (Seine et 

 Marne), has discovered, in connection with pottery, vases, 

 and polished flint hatchets, forty-four distal ends of humeri, 

 which have the olecranian fosse piercing the bone similarly 

 to those mentioned by Mr. Henry Gilman in the Michigan 

 mounds. 



M. E. Baudrimont has discovered in the dolmen of Font- 

 Real (Aveyron) a fragment of the lower part of a tibia ex- 

 hibiting an exostosis produced by a flint arrow-head driven 

 in, not by the point, but by the barbs, and in such a position 

 that the projector was either below or pursuing the subject. 

 The difficulty of conceiving how an arrow could have been 

 shot into such a position inclines M. Baudrimont to think 

 that we have here an example of primitive surgery. 



The subject of Swedish Archaeology is described in the 

 work of Oscar Montelius, entitled " Sur les tombeaux et la 

 topographic de la Suede pendant Page de la pierre." 



C. Engelhardt (" Materiaux," 1875, liv. 1, p. 68) gives an 

 account of a tumulus excavated by him in Laland, Den- 

 mark. In the same volume (page 350) is a resume of arch- 

 aeological work done in Denmark since 1869. 



