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tained in the breccia, of which we have spoken ; it was found 
in the lower part above the cranium: add to this some 
metacarpal bones, found at very different distances, half-a- 
dozen metatarsals, three phalanges of the hand, and one of 
the foot. 
This is a brief enumeration of the remains of human bones 
collected in the cavern of Engis, which has preserved for us 
the remains of thrée individuals, surrounded by those of the 
Elephant, of the Rhinoceros, and of Carnivora of species 
unknown in the present creation.” 
From the cave of Engihoul, opposite that of Engis, on 
the right bank of the Meuse, Schmerling obtained the re- 
mains of three other individuals of Man, among which were 
only two fragments of parietal bones, but many bones of 
the extremities. In one case, a broken fragment of an ulna 
was soldered to a like fragment of a radius by stalagmite, 
a condition frequently observed among the bones of the Cave 
Bear (Ursus speleus), found in the Belgian caverns. 
It was in the cavern of Engis that Professor Schmerling 
found, incrusted with stalagmite and joined to a stone, the 
~ pointed bone implement, which he has figured in fig. 7 of 
his Plate XXXVI, and worked flints were found by him 
in all those Belgian caves, which contained an abundance 
of fossil bones. 
A short letter from M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, published in 
the Comptes Rendus of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, 
for July 2nd, 1838, speaks of a visit (and apparently a very 
hasty one) paid to the collection of Professor ‘ Schermidt’ 
(which is presumably a misprint for Schmerling) at Liége. 
The writer briefly criticises the drawings which illustrate 
Schmerling’s work, and affirms that the “human cranium 
is a little longer than it is represented” in Schmerling’s 
figure. The only other remark worth quoting is this :— 
“ The aspect of the human bones differs little from that of 
the cave bones, with which we are familiar, and of which 
