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attributed to it the beautiful green colour, and his opinion appears 
after all to be the true one. 
M. Lartet has published an account (Comptes Rendus, lviii. 26) 
of the fossil cranium of the Musk-ox (Ovibos moschatus) found by 
Dr. Eugene Robert in the Diluvium of Précy on the right bank of 
the Oise. It was found at a depth of about 2 métres in a gravel- 
deposit belonging to the Diluvium or Drift, which is there covered 
with 3 or 4 métres of loam, analogous to the /oess. Among some other 
remains of large animals found there was the tusk of an Elephant. 
In the French and English remains of the Musk-ox we have an 
example of an animal restricted at the present day to the northern 
parts of America, above 60° of latitude, which at one time lived in 
our ‘quaternary’ Europe under the 47th degree, and we know also 
that the arctic Reindeer ranged in ancient times to the Pyrenees. 
M. Lartet supports the relationship of the Musk-ox to the Ovide, 
rather than to the Bovide as advanced by Owen in his paper on the 
English fossil remains of Musk-ox, in the Geological Society's 
Journal, 1856. 
M. Boucher de Perthes (Comptes Rendus, lix. 3) has discovered 
recently some more human remains at Moulin Quignon—a locality 
that became celebrated by the finding of the jaw-bone which gave 
rise to so much discussion. M. de Quatrefages publishes (loc. czt.) 
a long note upon this discovery. The box forwarded to Paris by 
M. Boucher de Perthes contains 16 or 17 teeth, several fragments of 
cranium, a portion of the occiput of an adult, a piece of ihe temporal 
bone of a young subject, some vertebrz, a portion of a sacrum, &c. 
These were forwarded on the 8th June, 1864; since then an entire 
jaw-bone and a cranium have been discovered, together with a 
quantity of other bones, about 200 in number. M. de Quairefages 
terminates his paper with the following remark: ‘To day, as last 
year, I leave to geologists the task of determining the age of the 
terrains de transport of Moulin Quignon, and consequently that of 
the human race the remains of which they have preserved. At any 
rate, the existence of this antehistoric human race, quite distinct 
from the Celtic races, cau be no longer contested” M. Elie de 
Beaumont reiterates the expression of his desire to see these bones 
placed in the hands of an expert analytical chemist; but he does not 
state his reasons for wishing these analyses to be made. 
REVIEWS. 
GEOLOGICAL Essays, AND SKETCH OF THE GEOLOGY oF MAn- 
CHESTER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. By Joun Taytor. London: 
Smmpkin, MARSHALL, & Co., 1864; pp. 282, 8vo. 
VERY physical science, like almost every field of research and 
subject for thought, has its two classes of writers—the scientific 
and the popular ; but we very much doubt whether the writers on 
any science exhibit so wide a difference in education and ability as 
