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by Professor Cocchi in a railway cutting at Olmo, 1 near 

 Arezzo, at a depth of about 15 metres from the surface. 

 It is preserved in the museum at Florence ; is well formed 

 and long, and of a high type. The conditions, however, 

 of its discovery seem to me to be very unsatisfactory. 

 It was found after a slip in the sides of the cutting, and 

 there is no evidence that the stratum in which it had 

 been imbedded had not been disturbed. A flint imple- 

 ment was found with it, which is pronounced by Mr. 



FIG. 19. Fragment of Cut Rib from the Tuscan Pleiocenes. 



Evans to belong to a well-known Neolithic type. This 

 stamps the age of the skull to be Neolithic and not 

 Pleiocene ; a conclusion which, indeed, might have been 

 arrived at from its identity with a type of skull extremely 

 common in Europe at that time. 



A second case of the reputed occurrence of traces of 

 man in Pleiocene strata is founded on a series of cut 

 bones obtained from the Pleiocenes of Tuscany by Mr. 

 Lawley, and preserved in the Museum at Florence.. 

 These specimens, which have been figured and described 



1 Cocchi, Mem. della Soc. Ital di Sc. Nat. ii. No. 7. Milano, 1867. 

 Forsyth Major, Soc. Ital. di Anti-apologia e di Etnologia, 20 April 1876. 



