104 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



THE CLIMATE OF PARIS IN PREHISTORIC TIME. 



BY CAPTAIN E. L. BERTHOUD, 



There is no reason to doubt that for a long time in the past, Paris and its 

 neighborhood enjoyed a tropical climate, where dwelt the elephant and rhinocer- 

 OB, animals fond of heat; then, that at other epochs this country was subjected 

 to glacial periods, which numerous relics of reindeer prove beyond doubt. 



We have new facts proving this: Mr. G. Vasseur has placed in the hands of 

 Prof. A. Gaudry, the famous palseontogical professor of the Museum, numerous 

 relics obtained on the heights of Montreuil in the environs of Paris at an altitude 

 of 326 feet above the sea. 



These fragments are of the quaternary period and consist of portions of the 

 skeletons of bisons, elephants, and especially of reindeer, which latter, however, 

 do not belong to that period of prehistoric time known as the " Reindeer Age"; 

 for the erosion of the bed of the Seine, which at a latter age took a very large 

 extension, had not then taken place. 



Thanks to this last discovery at Montreuil we can divide the Quaternary pe- 

 riod into six prominent intervals each characterized by alternations of cold and 

 warm climate, realizing the extreme conditions "enter se " of glacial, temperate 

 warm and torrid. To each of these corresponds a fauna and flora of special dis- 

 tinctions. 



In this tropical locality of Montreuil, be it well marked, not a vestage or 

 indication of man has been found anywhere. — Translated from V Exploration, Feb. 

 22, 1882. 



MISSOURI ARCHEOLOGY. 



BY O. W. COLLETT, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



[Read before the Missouri Historical Society, February 22, 18S2,] 



On April 14th last, I took the afternoon train to Kirkwood, and thence afoot 

 went down to Fenton, stopping by the way a little while at the Cerre Sulphur 

 Spring. I slept at the village, and next morning, which was Good Friday, re- 

 traced my steps as far as the Spring, and there and in the neighborhood spent 

 the forenoon. 



The day is fixed forever in my memory, for I do not remember ever to have 

 experienced the like of it, or an occasion on which the aspects of nature impress- 

 ed themselves so vividly on my imagination. The transparent atmosphere was 

 the special charm. 



Cerre Spring is in fact two separate fountains, one impregnated with sulphur, 

 the other with salt, whose waters have been united and gush forth as one stream. 

 It is situated one and one-fourth miles from Fenton, about the centre of a piece of 



