THE HUMAN SPECIES. 93 



BONES OF MAN 



AMONG OEGANIC BEMAINS. 



FOR the further illustration of this important question, 

 it is requisite to examine whether the organic remains 

 of extinct animals, found in the soil, and chiefly in 

 limestone caverns and clefts of rock, are accompanied 

 by human remains, bearing similar characters of anti- 

 quity. Although, as yet, few systematic researches on 

 this head have been made, even in Europe, and it is 

 likely, that in many bone deposits, no human exuviae 

 have been noticed, still, a sufficient number of instances 

 attest to the fact, and leave the question open, only on 

 the ground, that they were accidental cases, not belong- 

 ing to the same period.* Donati, Germer, Rasou- 

 mouski, and Guetard, maintained, that human bones 

 had been found, intermixed with those of lost species of 



* Baron Cuvier, in the last conversation we had with 

 him on this subject ("in 1824), admitted, that although the 

 human fragments discovered at Cette, near Monaco, and in 

 caves of the Appenines, might be more recent, the opinions, 

 then in vogue, would require considerable modification. 



