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made on account of the discovery in Buenos Ayres of a 

 mammalian femur of that period penetrated by what is 

 supposed to be a flint arrow-head ; but the evidence seems 

 quite insufficient to establish this. In Queensland a com- 

 pletely mineralised human skull has been found in the 

 Darling Downs. From the fact that this skull is in the same 

 condition as bones of Diprotodon and other extinct animals 

 from the same district, and for other reasons, it is considered 

 that it may date from Pleistocene times ; and it is undoubtedly 

 the earliest human find hitherto made in Australia. In 

 the Museum at Melbourne the British Association inspected 

 a fine series of native stone implements, going back to 

 Palaeolithic, and perhaps Eolithic, specimens. In this 

 connection I may mention that a book, " Wookey Hole, its 

 Caves and Caved wellers," giving an excellent account of 

 his explorations and the various human and other remains 

 found there, has lately been written by Mr. H. E. Balch, to 

 whom the Club was greatly indebted for help some years ago 

 when they visited that locality. Fresh excavations have 

 been carried out at Kent's Cavern, which our Club has also 

 visited, and Palaeolithic implements and bones have been 

 found, also a tooth, pronounced to be human, of early date. 

 Excavations at Hengistbury Head, near Christchurch, have 

 yielded Bronze Age pottery, an incense cup, gold, amber, 

 and bronze articles, also pottery of the period shortly before 

 the Roman occupation, and about 4,000 gold, silver, and 

 bronze coins, mostly early British, many in mint condition. 

 Excavations recently made in Crete have produced some 

 remarkable bronze swords, double axes, and interesting 

 pottery. Another investigation, the results of which have 

 just been presented to the American Museum of Natural 

 History at New York, has brought to light, from their kitchen 

 middens, many relics of the Arawak Indians, who inhabited 

 Jamaica when Columbus landed there. The relics consist 

 chiefly of fragments of pottery, celts, and other stone 

 implements. Another race which has now died out is that 

 of the Tasmanians, the last of whom died recently at the 



