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relics in the red and black deposits was discerned; they were 
seattered throughout, and, proving to be of the Reindeer Period, 
indicate this as one of the oldest of the Swiss caves, like those on 
the Saléve and near Villeneuve. Indeed the lowest bed is supposed 
to be of the Mammoth Period. 
No signs of polishing appear on any of the flint implements ; and 
no pottery has been found as yet. The bones are well preserved, 
and the joint-ends have not been gnawed; the hollow bones, 
however, have been broken open. Bones of the Hare are most 
plentiful; next, those of the Reindeer and Stag, and then the 
Horse. Bird-bones are not rare, especially of the Ptarmigan. ‘Two 
bones seem to be referable to the Bison or Aurochs. Single bones 
were met with of the Fox (?), Hyzna(?), and Bear. Lastly, in 
the lowest bed were found some fragments of a molar of the 
Mammoth. 
Prof. Heim, describing in full the Reindeer figure engraved on 
the piece of antler, which is carefully illustrated in the plate ac- 
companying the Memoir, insists upon the bold, free, and exact 
drawing of the old draughtsman, evidently by no means a beginner 
in his art, and finds reason to show that he was right-handed. 
In comparing this work of prehistoric art with those found in the 
Caves of Périgord, and figured by Lartet and Christy in the ‘ Reli- 
quiz Aquitanicex,’ Prof. Heim notices the superior design and effect 
of this natural and finished figure, as compared with the outlines 
of Reindeer from that district ; but some known outlines of the 
Aurochs from Périgord (sketched feebly in the ‘ Matériaux pour 
VHist. de Homme,’ vol. v. pl. 21) have equal vigour and truth, 
and the carver of such poniard-handles as that figured in the ‘ Reli- 
quiz Aquitanice,’ B. pl. xx., could really represent the Reindeer 
with exactness and grace. The Swiss Reindeer under notice, with 
its pinched-up belly, appears to us to be migrating from a poor 
feeding-ground, perhaps intent on a fresh pasture. Prof. Heim 
objects to a disproportionate largeness of the head and smallness of 
the ear. Possibly its poor condition has attenuated the body ; or 
still more likely, knowing the truthfulness of these old artists in 
other respects, we may believe that this variety of Reindeer had a 
large head. 
Prof. Heim points to other analogies presented by the contents of 
the Kesslerloch with those of the caves on the Vézére. Piercers 
made of bone, and broad sharp-edged implements of bone and 
antler, fragments of the so-called Batons or Pogamagans, barbed 
harpoons, and fragments of cut antlers were met with, thus corre- 
sponding in many respects with the contents of the caves of the 
Reindeer Period in the south-west of France. 
II. After some remarks on the sudden growth of prehistoric 
studies and on the possibly rash calculations made as to the antiquity 
of man, H. Karsten states that, with the view of studying these 
matters for himself, he sought for a cave near Schaffhausen ; and, 
with his friend Dr. E. Joos, he found one in February 1874 fully 
