Human Remains in the Lehm: 75 



yellowisli-grey colour, composed of a mixture of clay, fine sand, and 

 carbonate of lime. It contains in abundance those calcareous con- 

 cretions called "Kupstein," or "Puppelestein" (" pierres en forme 

 de petites poupees"), and has yielded also three characteristic shells : 

 Selix Mspida, Linn. ; Pupa muscorum, Drap. ; and Succinea oblonga, 

 Drap. 



Bones of a large stag (species undetermined) , including an almost 

 entire frontal bone measuring 18 centimetres transversely between 

 the horns, were exhiimed. 



A fine molar tooth of ElepJias primigenius, and a metatarsal bone 

 of Bos priscus were found at the base of the deposit. 



All the bones have completely lost their organic matter ; their 

 texture is chalky, they are of a white colour, and very fragile. 



The human bones consist of a frontal and a right parietal bone, 

 almost entire. They belong to the same skull, and of an adult 

 individual of middle stature. They were found together embedded 

 in the Lehm, and present the same white colour as the other bones, 

 and must have undergone identical alterations in texture and com- 

 position. 



The author's chief conclusions are that man lived in the valley of 

 the Ehine contemporaneous with the fossil stag, bison, and mam- 

 moth, and that the appearance of man in the country would have 

 been previous to certain movements of the earth, which took place 

 after the deposition of the " diluvium," and which have given the 

 ground its present physical configuration. — Comptes Kendus. 



E,:BV"IE^vVS. 



I. — QuARTEBLT JoiiRNAL OF SciENCE. No. 13, January, 1867. 



SEVERAL articles of general interest are contained in this Journal. 

 The first, entitled, " Sir Charles Lyell, and Modern Geology," 

 accompanied with a lithographic portrait, sets forth the claims of 

 that philosopher to be considered as the " founder of Modem 

 Geology," in the sense of his being the man who first clearly defined 

 the principles of geological investigation, and is a review of his more 

 popular works. The article is written in a clear, sound, and philo- 

 sophical manner, and forms an essay on the progress of Geology, 

 as well as an autobiographical sketch of its modern historian. 



A second paper is on " the Ignigenoiis BocTcs, near Monibrison," by 

 Dr. Daubeny, a supplement to his previous paper (see Geol. Mag. 

 Vol. ni. p. 216) on the Antiquity of the Volcanos of Auvergne. The 

 only igneous rocks observed in the neighbourhood of Montbrison con- 

 sist of a compact basalt, with nests of olivine, a material which could 

 only have been elaborated by the aid of great pressure, and under a 

 different configuration of the surface from that now existing, and 

 the author concludes that a vast antiquity must be assigned to these 

 basalts. 



Mr. A. E. Wallace contributes an article on '' Ice-marks in North 

 Wales," a review of Glacial Theories and Controversies ; and Mr. 



