1823.] Mr. Weaver on Fossil Human Bones. 17 



Article II. 



On Fossil Human Bones, and other Animal Remains recently 

 found in Germany. By Thomas Weaver, Esq. MRIA. MRDS. 

 MWS. MGS. 



(To the Editor of the Annals of Philosophy.) 



SIR, Tortworth, Wettottotnder-e&ge, Dec. T, 1822. 



The admirable paper of Prof. Buckland on fossil teeth and 

 bones, discovered in caves and diluvian gravel, in England and 

 on the Continent,* has excited, as might have been expected, a 

 high degree of interest in the public mind. Persuaded of the 

 value attached to every addition to our stock of knowledge, that 

 may tend in any measure to elucidate the effects of diluvian or 

 post-diluvian action, it appeared to me that an acceptable ser- 

 vice might be performed, by conveying to the English reader an 

 account of the fossil human remains lately discovered in Ger- 

 many, in company with those of other animals, near the valley 

 of the Elster. The facts detailed, and the speculations thence 

 arising, which proceed from the pen of the Baron von Schlo- 

 theim, are contained in the following paper, to which I have 

 added a few notes. You will favour me by inserting it in the 

 Annals of Philosophy ; and I am, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



T. Weaver. 



Geological Description of the Environs of Kostritz, with an 

 Account of the Fossil Bones discovered in that Vicinity. t 



The recent discovery of human bones, as well as those of 

 other animals, in a fossil state, in the neighbourhood of Kostritz, 

 cannot fail to render a description of that district interesting to 

 naturalists in general. 



I had an opportunity of examining that part of the country 

 this spring (1820), in company with Mr. Braun, Counsellor to 

 the Land-Chamber, a gentleman distinguished by his exact 

 mineralogical knowledge. Its geological relations are so well 

 exposed in the ranges of hills, and in the quarries opened on 

 their declivities, that no room is left to doubt the disposition 

 and order of succession of the different floetz formations, which 

 appear in that vicinity. 



The valley of the Elster extends from Kostritz to the N, in an 

 average breadth of about 2\ English miles, flanked by heights 

 which are covered with fertile fields, and slightly wooded. 

 These eminences form connected ranges on both banks of the 



* Published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1822, Part I ; and also in the 

 Annah of l'lidosophy for August and September, 1822. 



+ From the Introduction to the Petrefactenkunde of the Baron von Schlotheim. 

 Ontha. 1820. 



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