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ed but a single species, and which, moreover, dissipates the ob- 

 scurity in which ill observed facts had involved an important 

 pdnt of geology, deserves the full approbation of the academy, 

 and is worthy of being printed among those of foreign mem- 

 bers. 



These conclusions were adopted by the Academy. 



Fossil Antediluvian Animals mingled with human remains in 

 the Caves o/'Bize. 



In the caves of Bize in France, there has been found not only 

 remains of antediluvian animals, but also human bones and 

 remains of works of art. MM. Tournal and Marcel de Serres 

 found the mud of the caves to contain abundant fragments of 

 ]»Uery, which must be referred to the Etruscan era. 



M. Tournal intends to publish, conjointly with M. Marcel 

 de Serres, a description of the Bize caves. In the mean time 

 the authors present separately the conclusions to which they 

 think the observations that have hitherto been made might 

 lead. 



M. TournaVs Conclusions. 



1. The two caves of Bize have been entirely choked up with 

 a black mud containing a prodigious quantity of fossil bones. 

 Sometimes these bones are in a complete state of alteration ; but 

 it is seldom that they are found connected. 



y. The bones are not gnawed. 



ii. There has only as yet been observed a single tootli (if a 

 carnivorous animal. 



4. The black mud does not contain excrements of carnivorous 

 animals. 



5. The population buried in the mud of the Bize Caves dif- 

 fers entirely irom that which has been observed in the caves ol' 

 France, Germany, and England. 



6. The same black mud which contains the fossil bones, of 

 which several, as will be seen in our work, belong lo extinct 

 species, also contains human bones, which have, in a great mea- 



