280 ANNUAL KECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



posits, were those of man, several well-marked remains hav- 

 ing been brought to light. It is very well known that it is 

 many years since the climate of Corsica was fitted for such 

 animals as the Zagomys^ and we may infer that it and its 

 associates belonged to the earlier period of European prehis- 

 tory, when semi-arctic conditions prevailed in southern lati- 

 tudes. 6 B, February 10, 1873, 379. 



THE DILUVIAL SKULL OF NAGY KAP, IN HUNGARY. 



To the very small list of authenticated crania of great an- 

 tiquity, now best represented by the Engis skull and the 

 Neanderthal skull in Europe, the Calaveras County skull, 

 and that from the " drift " of Illinois, deposited by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in the Army Medical Museum at AYashing- 

 ton, is to be added one recently discovered in the loess of 

 Nagy Kap, in Hungary. This is announced by Luschan to 

 the Anthropological Society of Vienna, and described in its 

 Mittheilungen. The genuineness of the " find " is considered 

 as quite beyond question, the most accurate investigation 

 furnishing no reason to believe that it was not deposited si- 

 multaneously with the loess. A flood excavated a cutting 

 through this formation to the depth of eight or ten feet, and 

 at six feet from the surface the bones forming the subject of 

 the announcement were revealed. The skull is purely brach- 

 ycephalic, differing in this respect from the other diluvial 

 European crania, which are dolichocephalic. The cubical ca- 

 pacity of the skull could not be determined, in consequence 

 of its being filled with earth ; but, as far as an examination 

 was practicable, seemed to be about the average of that of 

 men of the present day. There appeared to be nothing pe- 

 culiar in the form of the frontal sinus, which constitutes so 

 stronsc and marked a feature of the Neanderthal and Illinois 

 crania just referred to. 31 C, November 30, 1872, 301. 



rUKTHER DISCOVEEIES AT MENTONE. 



Mr. E. Riviere announces the discovery of another human 

 skeleton in the sixth cavern of Baousse-Rousse, in the region 

 in which the discovery of a human skeleton and of numerous 

 prehistoric remains attracted so much attention last summer. 

 The examinations which had been previously made in these 

 proved to have been but cursory, and a more thorough inves- 



