Le Hon — Fossil Man. 563 



m. — New Work on the Antiquity on Man. 



["L'HoMME FossiLE EN EuROPE, SoN. INDUSTRIE, ses moeurs, ses ceuvres d'art am 

 temps antediluviens et prehistoriques." By M. H. le Hon, Chevalier of the 

 Order of Leopold, etc. Brussels, 1866.] 



HAVING been favoured with a few of tlae sheets of this work, 

 now in course of publication, we are enabled to form some 

 idea of its purport. And in this respect, as might be expected, it 

 resembles Sir Charles Lyell's " Antiquity of Man," some of the 

 wood-cuts of which have been borrowed for its illustration. 



As stated in the prospectus, the author gives an exposition of all 

 the great discoveries bearing upon the Antiquity of the Human race, 

 commencing with a brief sketch of the earth's history, from its 

 creation to the appearance of man, and concluding with a resume on 

 " Darwinism," translated from the Italiarf of Prof. Omboni. In the 

 table of contents are indicated chapters on the Grlacial Period, the 

 age of the Great Bear and Mammoth, the age of the Eeindeer,, 

 Diluvial Inundations, the ages of Polished Stone, Bronze, and Iron 

 Implements, and on Lacustrine Habitations. We shall take an early 

 opportunity to notice this book again ; it will doubtless prove an 

 acceptable addition to our library of Pre-historic literature. 



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Geological Society of London. — November 7, 1866. — Prof. 

 A. C. Ramsay, LL.D., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The 

 following communications were read : — 1. " On some remains of 

 large Dinosaurian Reptiles from the Stormberg Mountains, South 

 Africa. By Prof. T. H. Huxley. LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.G.S. 



The specimen more particularly described in this paper is a portion 

 of a right femur, 25^ inches long, so that the entire femur may be 

 safely assumed to have exceeded 30 inches in length. The peculiar 

 form of the bone, and the characters and position of the trochanters, 

 leave no doubt of the Dinosaurian affinities of the reptile to which it 

 belonged, which must have been comparable in point of size to its 

 near allies, the Megalosaurus and the Iguanodon. To the former of 

 these it possesses the closest affinity, but differs in the proportional 

 size and form of its trochanters, and in its much heavier proportions ; 

 and the author proposes for it the name Euslcelosawus Broivni. 



A portion of the distal end of a femur indicating another genus of 

 large-sized Dinosaurian reptiles was also described, the characters 

 yielded being sufficient to prove that it belongs to another genus than 

 Eushelosaurus. 



The discovery of these remains in the Stormberg rocks was stated 

 to be by no means decisive of their geological relations, as Dinosau- 

 rian reptiles lived throughout the Mesozoic period, and may have 

 existed during the Permian ; but it is interesting to observe that the 

 Stormberg rocks conformably overlie the Karoo beds, which have 

 yielded the Dicynodonts and so many other remarkable Reptiles and 

 Laby rinthodonts . 



