154 Miscellaneous. 



Retzius, Miiller, KoUiker, and Quatrefages speak of two eyes ; 

 Schultze only found a single one. By examining numerous indi- 

 viduals we find that some have two eyes, whilst others have only one. 

 ^-Comptes Rendus, March 7, 1864, p. 479. 



Recent Discovery of Fossil Human Remains near Abbeville. 



The * Abbevillois ' of the 1 9th July contains a long account of 

 recent discoveries of human remains in the valley of the Somme, not 

 by the questionable intervention of the labourers, but by the personal 

 exertions of M. Boucher de Perthes and his friends. At Moulin- 

 Quignon, where the celebrated jaw was found, M. Boucher de Perthes 

 has obtained numerous bones of men and animals from depths of 

 from 2 to 4 metres in undisturbed beds ; and on the 24th of April in 

 the present year, Dr. Dubois and he found numerous fragments of 

 bone in the yellowish-brown bed, 2 metres from the surface ; and 60 

 centimetres lower down Dr. Dubois caught sight of an imbedded bone 

 which proved to be a human sacrum. In the sable aiyre in another 

 part of the quarry, a bed so hard as to render the pickaxe necessary, 

 a human tooth was seen fixed in its sandy matrix, and was extracted 

 by M. Boucher de Perthes. 



On the 1st of May the same gentleman found, at a depth of 2^ 

 metres in the ferruginous bed, three fragments of a cranium in very 

 bad condition, but probably human. The grey bed furnished, with 

 some other bones, a fragment of a human tooth. On the 12th of 

 May, M. Hersent-Duval, in company with MM. Boucher de Perthes 

 and Dubois, extracted a fragment of a human cranium from its place 

 at a depth of 2*30 metres. 



On the 1 7th of May the party was joined by M. Martin and the 

 Abbe Dergny, when they found and extracted a human cranium, 

 which is said to be remarkably depressed at the summit. None of 

 the party doubted that this bone had occupied the position in which 

 it was found ever since the formation of the bed. 



On the 9th of July the examining party was increased in number 

 by several members of the SociHi d' Emulation of Abbeville, and 

 again several fragments of human bones were seen in place and ex- 

 tracted. On the 16th a still larger body, including M. Buteux and 

 M. de Mercey (the latter having come on purpose from Paris), pro- 

 ceeded to the scene of operations ; the digging was continued down 

 even to the surface of the chalk, and several human bones were found, 

 one of them at the very bottom of the deposit, upon the chalk itself. 



Among the human bones found are two fragments of the upper 

 jaw and an almost entire lower jaw ; the latter was obtained at a 

 depth of 4-30 metres, and 22 metres from the resting-place of the 

 jaw found on the 28th of March 1863, which the newly discovered 

 bone is said to resemble in its form. 



Discovery of Fossil Stone Implements in India. 

 At a recent meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Pro- 

 fessor Oldham exhibited a small collection of stone implements 

 which had very recently been discovered by Messrs. King and 



