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vast difference in size between the domestic buffalo of Hindostan, Bos 

 bubalus, and the wild variety or Arnee 1 , is due, I apprehend, to the 

 working of this agency upon the former as against the selective agency 

 of the carnivora upon the latter; and the like causes must have pro- 

 duced the like effects in former times. 



I take this opportunity of putting on record the points in which the 

 collections of various objects from the Swiss lake-dwellings seen by me 

 under the favourable conditions above specified (p. 342, note) differ from 

 those procured from British prehistoric graves. 



The absence of any traces of cerealia in our neolithic barrows puts 

 them at once into sharp contrast with the Swiss lake-dwellings even of 

 the early stone age such as Moosseedorf and Wangen ; and though the 

 frequent occurrence of unthrashed-out ears in the specimens from these 

 habitations shows, as Dr. H. Christ (1. c.) has observed, that their 

 tenants were in a very primitive state, still the presence and botanical 

 characters of these ' Kulturplanzen,' as also of the weeds accompanying 

 them, prove that these men had at one time or other some direct or in- 

 direct communication with Mediterranean regions. (See Prof. Heer in 

 Keller's 'Lake Dwellings,' trans. Lee, p. 342 seqq.) The textile flax- 

 fabrics so prominent in every series from the Swiss lake-dwellings, even 

 from the very early one of Schaffis, are as completely wanting in British 

 stone-age barrows as the cerealia. 



A second point of equally striking contrast is furnished to us by the 

 great inferiority of all British pottery of the stone- and bone-periods to 

 that at least of the later stone age in Switzerland. It is true that from 

 such a very early lake-dwelling as that of Schaffis, pottery of the most 

 primitive kind possible, imperfectly burnt, coarse alike in composition 

 and contour, may, as the series in the University Museum obtained 

 through the kindness of Herr E. von Fellenberg and the exertions of the 



1 An anonymous but excellent naturalist in the 'Zoologist' (1858-1859, vol. xvi. 

 P- 6554) writes thus as to the great difference in size existing between the wild and 

 tame buffalo to the advantage of the former : 'We believe the main reason of it to be 

 that the tame calves are deprived of their due supply of milk. The importance of an 

 ample supply of suitable nourishment in early life, as bearing on the future develop- 

 ment of any animal, cannot be over-estimated.' He also states on the authority of a 

 friend that the Burmese domestic buffalo is ' much larger than in Bengal, with splendid 

 horns, and altogether a vastly superior animal, in fact, resembling the wild buffalo. 

 The Burmese never milk them ; having the same strange prejudice to milk which the 

 Chinese have, though otherwise both peoples are nearly omnivorous.' See Specimens 

 1350 and 1351, Oxford University Museum, the one from a wild, the other from a 

 tame buffalo. 



