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a series of five caverns facing the south. A platform runs at about 100 
feet above the Mediterranean, and these caverns are about 40 or 50 feet 
higher up in the side of the Jurassic hills. In one of these called Baoussé 
*“Roussé the skeleton was found at a depth of about eight or ten feet below 
the surface, with an equivalent depth of soil below it. The whole floor, 
which has never had a stalagmitic covering formed over it, is one mass of 
sand and charcoal. Broken bones and thousands of flint flakes have been 
collected from it, From the fact of its being the only skeleton found 
entire in association with remains of mammals considered extinct it is of 
great importance. Dr. Riviere would carry the date back to the times 
of the extinct mammalia, but Mr. Moore questioned whether he was right 
in placing the date back so far: it was, however, without much doubt, 
of considerable autiquity. Amongst the interesting objects Mr. Moore 
exhibited, in addition to the hiding places of the trap door spiders with 
their flexible hinges, were flint flakes, rounded stones, and whetstones 
from the cavern, together with a small portion of specular iron ore found 
near the jaw of the skeleton, probably either placed in the mouth or worn 
suspended to the neck as a fetish or charm. The head was surrounded 
with a chaplet of strung shells and teeth of animals, and bracelets of 
similar remains were still surrounding the bones of the limbs. 
A cordial vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Moore for his interesting 
reminiscences, and a feeling of admiration expressed at the profitable way 
in which a man with a keen eye for nature’s wonders, though he be an 
invalid, can spend his time and cheat the English winter. 
Mr. WinwoopD called attention to many facts in connection 
with these Mentone researches which tended to make Englishmen 
cautious as to their conclusions respecting the great antiquity of 
these skeletons. Two especially he dwelt upon ; Ist, the impor- 
tant fact that there was no stalagamitic floor above the skeleton ; 
and 2ndly, the great probability that from the position in which 
the skeleton was found the earth in the cave must have been 
disturbed for the purpose of covering it after death. Mr. 
Winwood was unable to give his ‘Notes on some Railway 
Sections,’ owing to press of time, and merely alluded to the 
admirable water-colour sketch of an important section of sands 
resting upon the upper lias in the Lyncombe cutting made for 
