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issue of the Journal: — 1. "Seventh Supplement to Dana's Mineralogy," hy the' 

 Author [Prof. Dana], from the American Journal of Science and Arts for July, 1859- 

 Tlie publication of these valuable ' Supplements ' in a separate form — in sets of five 

 or six for example, — would be exceedingly -welcome to all interested in the progress 

 of Minei-alogy. 2. "The Old Glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales," by A. 

 C. Ramsay, F.R.S., etc. A review of this interesting and gracefully illustrated 

 essay will appear in an early number of the Journal. 3. " The Microscopic Structure 

 of some Canadian Limestones," by Professor Dawson, LL.D. ; and 4. " The Natu- 

 ral History of the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, and Distribution of the Mollusca of 

 Eastern Canada," by Robert Bell, Jr., are from the June number of the Canadian 

 Ifaturalist. Prof. Dawson's Paper is illustrated by several wood engravings 

 shewing the minute organisms, and the general microscopic appearance, of 

 various specimens of Trenton and Chazy limestone from the neighborhood of 

 Montreal. Mr. Bell's Essay contains a very elaborate exposition of the verte- 

 brated, molluscous and other animals of the St. Lawrence valley and Eastern 

 Canada generally. It is an exceedingly useful and carefully drawn up paper ; and 

 as the effort of so young a man, it cannot be too highly commended. Mr. Bell bids 

 fair to occupy a distinguished position amongst Canadian naturalists. 



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TRACES OF HUMAN ARTS IN THE DKIFT. 



At the late meeting of the British Association, at Aberdeen, several speakers, 

 especially in the Geological Section, took occasion to reveit to the highly interest- 

 ing discoveries recently announced, of the finding of flint implements and other 

 traces of human arts in the diluvial formations. It is now ten years since such 

 discoveries were first announced by M. Boucher de Perthes, as having been made 

 in the neighbourhood of Abbeville ; but his elaborate work, entitled " Antiquites 

 Celtiques et Ant6deluviennes," contained so much vague and extravagant theori- 

 sing, and was accompanied by engravings of so many so-called antediluvian 

 works of art, with no more traces of art about them, to ordinary eyes, than any 

 heap of broken flints by the roadside could furnish, that it attracted little atten- 

 tion. More recently, however, M. Aymard, distinguished alike as a palaBontolo- 

 gist and an archeeologist, has announced the discovery of portions of human 

 skeletons embodied in the volcanic breccia near Le Puy en Velay ; and attention 

 being anew drawn to the subject, Mr. Prestwick, Sir Charles Lyell, and other 

 Geologists of unquestionable judgment and probity, have explored the stratified 

 gravel in the neighbourhood of Amiens and Abbeville, and produced artificially 

 formed hatchets, spear heads, and wedges of flint, from gravel pits, at a depth of 

 seventeen feet below the surface. The subject has naturally excited much discus- 

 sion, and led to many conflicting opinions as to its bearing on the question of the 

 antiquity of the human race, or the condition and occupants of the globe at the 

 period of Man's introdiiction as the highest among its living inheritors. 



The following highly interesting resume of the subject was given by Sir Charles 



