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tooth and of the palgeohths, and also pointing to the fact that if it 

 were duly proven that the palaeoliths were associated with the 

 mastodon molar tooth, a much greater antiquity would have to l)e 

 claimed for these artefacts. 



But the learned Professor of Palteontology of the Paris Museum 

 answered my communication to this effect : " This contention would 

 be true, provided the genus Mastodon did not last longer in Africa 

 than it did in Europe, where it does not go beyond the limit of 

 the Pleistocene. It has, perhaps, survived with you during the 

 Quaternary (Pleistocene) period, as it has done in North and South 

 America." " 



The finds in the saiids of the Fayoum seem to justify this 

 contention. Moreover, the tooth belongs to the Bunolophon group 

 of Mastodon in which all the North African species described by 

 Gaudry and Deperet are included. 



On the other hand, this molar tooth may have come from a 

 terrace that was once much higher than the deposit on which it 

 was found. 



Antelopes. — If we turn to the Antilopince, a group of Mammals 

 numbering so many species in Africa, but which, with the excep- 

 tion of the cold-loving AntUopc saiga, are not represented in the 

 European Quaternary, we find an extinct Bnbalis, B. prisciis, 

 Broom, f 



BuBALis, or Alcelaphus, as it is sometimes called, is, like 

 several other antelopes, recorded from the Pliocene beds of India 

 (Siwalik). 



This find here is represented by one example only, and consists 

 of the post-orbital portion of a skull with the proximal part of the 

 left horn-core. The interest attaching to the example is that it was 

 discovered in the hanks of the Modder River, and apparently not far 

 from where Rickard discovered implements of paUeolithic type. I 

 But the connection of the Palaeoliths with the remains of that 

 extinct Bnhalis is merely conjectural. This fragmentary skull is 

 quite black, in the manner of many of the ancient bones found in 

 ]ijurope in river-drift. 



Buffalo and Horse. — For some time now a Buffalo, which 

 judging from the size of the horn-cores must have been gigantic, 

 has been known from South Africa. It was described by Seeley 

 from our example in the Museum — a part of the frontal and the 



* L'Anthropologie, xxi., 1910, p. '248. 



t Ann. S. Afrie. Museum, vii., 1909, p. 279, c. fig. 



; Canibiitlg. Com. Antiq. Soc, v., 1880-1881. 



