522 Revieivs — Prof. Nicholson's Falceontology of Ontario. 



The second definite layer, on which were traces of fire, contained 

 bones of Euminants, especially Ox, Deer, and Reindeer, with a few 

 bones of the Horse ; while the worked flints were of the types 

 found at la Madelaine and Laugerie rather than in the more ancient 

 caves of Le Moustier and Cro-Magnon. 



As time went on, the lower part of the cave became filled with 

 debris, until it could no longer afford sufficient shelter; and the 

 mere niche now left was used as a place of sepulture. Eelics of 

 more than thirty bodies were found in the further part of the exca- 

 vation ; and, from the Dolichocephalic type of the skulls, they 

 appear, at first glance, to be coeval with those of Cro-Magnon ; but 

 the fact of the bone ornaments being carved with representations of 

 anima] life, and so forth, would at once put them as of more recent 

 date than those remains. The bone implements were such as are 

 classed under the " polished stone age." The flints were of two 

 kinds, — one of a rude and early type, mere flakes or scrapes ; the 

 others highly finished and, to a limited extent, polished, being by no 

 means inferior in workmanship to those discovered in the "long 

 barrows " of Cumberland and Yorkshire. 



It does not follow, therefore, that the lowest strata and the place 

 of burial contain relics of two separate races ; that, in fact, successive 

 and distinct waves of population have swept over the valley of the 

 Adour. The nature of the superjDosition of the successive habitations 

 would rather tend to show that the ancient inhabitants of the caves 

 of the Sorde peninsula were but difi"erent branches of the same race, 

 and that the descendants of those who sculptured bear and lion's 

 teeth, when the caverns were places of habitation, were the ancestors 

 of those who had lingered on to the days when the implements of flint 

 were made beautiful in form and artistic in workmanship (fig. 25). 



The pamphlet completely bears out this assumption, and the num- 

 ber and careful nature of the illustrations furnish us with accurate 

 data for the consideration of the theory so ably advanced and so 

 completely discussed by MM. Lartet and Duparc. 



C. Cooper King. 



II. — Eeport upon the Paleontology of the Province of Ontario. 

 By Prof. H. A. Nicholson, M.D., F.K.S.E., F.G.S., etc., etc. 

 8vo. illustrated, pp. 130. (Toronto: 1874, Hunter, Rose, & Co.) 



IN this Eeport Prof. Nicholson describes, and for the most part 

 figures, the fossils that he collected during the year 1873, in 

 the Devonian rocks of Western Canada ; and in this work he has 

 been aided by a grant from the Government of Ontario. 



The specimens described come mostly from the Lower Devonian 

 series (Oriskany Sandstone and Corniferous Limestone), but the 

 Hamilton Group was also examined. 



Altogether 160 species are described, viz.: — Protozoa, 6 species; 

 Coelenterata, 70; Brachiopoda, 43; Polyzoa, 20; Lamellibranchiata, 

 1; Pteropoda, 1 ; Gasteropoda, 12; Annelida, 3; Crustacea, 4. Some 

 of these have already been described and figured by the author 



