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tion par MM. de Quatrefages et Virchow durant ces dernieres annees 

 pour les peuples Europeens. La meme these a ete defendue recem- 

 ment a I'aide d'une grande erudition et d'une argumentation 

 persuasive, pour les langues occidentales ^. Je crois^ pouvoir 

 prouver de nous cote que notre age de la pierre ^ polie n'est pas 

 le resultat d'une importation, mais qu'il apris naissance dans nos 

 regions memes.' 



Professor Steeustrup is reported as having expressed himself 

 entirely to the opposite effect in the Compte Kendu (p. 163) of 

 the International Congress held at Copenhagen in 1869; and 

 unless he changed his opinion in the interval between 1869 and 

 1873, it must be through some error that his name is quoted as 

 in the above extract from the Stockholm Compte Rendu. There 

 is no room however for suggesting that the reference to M. Granier 

 de Cassagnac's work is made through inadvertence; and I must 

 remark therefore that no conclusion however much in want of 

 support can gain much by a reference to that production. On 

 the other hand, the respectable authority of Dr. H, Christ (in 

 Riitimeyer's Fauna des Pfahlbauten, pp. 225-226) can be brought 

 forward for ' die Autochthonie ' theory. 



I cannot understand how any one wath the evidence properly 

 before him can doubt that the goat, sheep, horse, and dog were 

 in the earliest neolithic times imported as domesticated animals 

 into this country and into Switzerland. The ease with w^hich the 

 calf of a pit-fall-taken Bos primigenius would be domesticated, as 

 well as some other reasons, may make it just possible that the 

 domestic cow of those times may not in all cases have been im- 

 ported already tamed. But I incline to think that this really was 

 most commonly the case. 



On the other hand, having been convinced by what I saw in the 

 Swiss collections from SchafSs and elsewhere that the small race of 

 swine Siis scrofa, var. palustris^ existed there as a wild race ; and 

 coupling this with the facts, on the one side, of the exceeding 

 readiness with which this species lends itself to domestication, and 

 on the other side, of the considerable difficulties which attend its 

 transport over great distances in space, I incline to think that this 

 animal may have had a different history from the others just 

 mentioned, and may have been domesticated upon the spot. 



' Granier de Cassagnac, Les origines de la langue Francaise. Paris, 1872. 

 * Compte rendu du Congrfes de 1872, p. 459. 



