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flints associated with broken bones and cemented into a breccia. Among them 

 was a barbed harpoon and the cannon bone of a Deer engraved with the figure of 

 a Doe or Reindeer, followed by another animal of much the same appearance. 



An analogous deposit in a cave on Mont Saleve, near Geneva, has been already 

 mentioned. 



Now it will be observed that in all these instances, in which to all appearance 

 precisely similar deposits to those of the Valley of the Ve'zere have occurred, the 

 animals characteristic of the older or Postpliocene fauna are entirely absent. 



In the Grotte d'Arcy * (sur Cure), described, though apparently under somewhat 

 erroneous impressions, by the Marquis de Vibraye, there appears to have been a 

 lower bed distinct from that immediately superimposed upon it, and containing 

 remains of Ursus spelaius, Hycena spelcea, and Rhinoceros tichorhinm, among 

 which, however, a Human jaw was discovered. The bed above contained bones 

 of Reindeer, Deer, Ox, and Horse, associated with flint knives. In this bed were 

 fragments of a ring with notches in it ; and its whole character seems much the 

 same as that of the deposits I have been describing ; so that it would appear as 

 if we had here a case of superposition of the beds of what M. Lartet has termed 

 the " Reindeer period " of the South of Erance upon an older bed. The Cave of 

 Pontil (Herault), described by M. Paul Gervais, presents an analogous instance. 

 There the remains of Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Ursus spelceus, &c. are in a lower 

 lied than that which furnished bones of Horse, Human remains, ancient hearths, 

 a flint knife, and various instruments made of Deer's horn and bone, but in this 

 case similar to those found in the Lake-habitations of Switzerland. Indeed some 

 of the upper beds produced polished stone axes and objects belonging to the 

 Age of Bronze. 



Baron Ancaf has remarked something of the same kind in the Grotta San 

 Teodoro (Sicily), where beds containing siliceous flakes mixed with bones of Stag, 

 Horse, and Pig overlie beds containing bones of Hyaena, Bear, Elephant, and 

 Hippopotamus. In the Grotta Perciata the deposit of broken bones and flint 

 flakes occurred, but without the remains of the older animals. 



In the Cave of Bruniquel, from which the collection of objects now in the 

 British Museum was procured, and which has formed the subject of a communi- 

 cation from Professor Owen to the Royal Society, as yet, however, incomplete!, 

 arrow-heads, harpoons, needles, and other instruments in bone, cut and engraved 

 bones and Reindeer -horns, and various forms of worked flints, all similar to the 



* Bull. Soc. Geol. de France, 2nd ser., xvii. p. 462. t Hid. pp. 680-684. 



J Since this was written, further communications have been made to the Koyal Society by Prof. Owen. 



