154 Miscellaneous. 
Retzius, Miller, Kolliker, and Quatrefages speak of two eyes ; 
Schultze only found a single one. By examining numerous indi- 
viduals we find that some have two eyes, whilst others have only one. 
—Comptes Rendus, March 7, 1864, p. 479. we 
Recent Discovery of Fossil Human Remains near Abbeville. 
The ‘ Abbevillois’ of the 19th July contains a long account of 
recent discoveries of human remains in the valley of the Somme, not 
by the questionable intervention of the labourers, but by the personal 
exertions of M. Boucher de Perthes and his friends. At Moulin- 
Quignon, where the celebrated jaw was found, M. Boucher de Perthes 
has obtained numerous bones of men and animals from depths of 
from 2 to 4 metres in undisturbed beds; and on the 24th-of April in 
the present year, Dr. Dubois and he found numerous fragments of 
bone in the yellowish-brown bed, 2 metres from the surface; and 60 
centimetres lower down Dr. Dubois caught sight of an imbedded bone 
which proved to be a human sacrum. In the sable aigre in another 
part of the quarry, a bed so hard as to render the pickaxe necessary, 
a human tooth was seen fixed in its sandy matrix, and was extracted 
by M. Boucher de Perthes. 
On the Ist of May the same gentleman found, at a depth of 23 
metres in the ferruginous bed, three fragments of a cranium in very 
bad condition, but probably human. The grey bed furnished, with 
some other bones, a fragment of a human tooth. On the 12th of 
May, M. Hersent-Duval, in company with MM. Boucher de Perthes 
and Dubois, extracted a fragment of a human cranium from its place 
at a depth of 2°30 metres. 
On the 17th of May the party was joimed by M. Martin and the 
Abbé Dergny, when they found and extracted a human cranium, 
which is said to be remarkably depressed at the summit. None of 
the party doubted that this bone had occupied the position in which 
it was found ever since the formation of the bed. 
On the 9th of July the examining party was increased in number 
by several members of the Société d’ Emulation of Abbeville, and 
again several fragments of human bones were seen in place and ex- 
tracted. On the 16th a still larger body, including M. Buteux and 
M. de Mercey (the latter having come on purpose from Paris), pro- 
ceeded to the scene of operations ; the digging was continued down 
even to the surface of the chalk, and several human bones were found, 
one of them at the very bottom of the deposit, upon the chalk itself. 
Among the human bones found are two fragments of the upper 
jaw and an almost entire lower jaw; the latter was obtained at a 
depth of 4°30 metres, and 22 metres from the resting-place of the 
jaw found on the 28th of March 1863, which the newly discovered 
bone is said to resemble in its form. 
Discovery of Fossil Stone Implements in India. 
At a recent meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Pro- 
fessor Oldham exhibited a small collection of stone implements 
which had very recently been discovered by Messrs. King and 
