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" The skeleton is that of a man about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, 

 and all but perfect. 



" The skull was of a red colour, and covered with numerous per- 

 forated marine shells, of the species of Nassa neritea, and twenty- 

 two perforated canines of the stag, the whole having probably been a 

 chaplet. A bone instrument, pointed at one end, lay across the forehead. 



" The skull was very dolichocephalic, the occiput much produced, 

 the forehead rather narrow, and the temple flattened; the facial 

 angle measured from 80° to 85°. All the teeth were perfect, but 

 were worn flat, as if by trituration of hard food, as is commonly 

 observed in very ancient skulls, as well as in modern savage races. 



" The thigh-bones were strongly -carinate, and the tibia, or shin- 

 bone, was somewhat platycnemic, or flattened ; the fibula also was of 

 enormous thickness. 



" The whole attitude indicated that the man had died in his sleep ; 

 and from the manner in which his remains were associated with 

 unpolished implements and the bones of extinct animals, it seems 

 not improbable that Dr. Eiviere has brought to light a complete 

 human skeleton of paleolithic age." (p. 144:.) 



Since the foregoing was printed, the author has learned that a 

 second skeleton has been brought to light by M. Eiviere in a 

 neighbouring cavern under similar conditions. In a letter to the 

 author (April 17, 1873), he states that he found with this second 

 human fossil, a flint lance, and a flint hatchet, both unpolished. 



Around the arms, wrists, and knees were bracelets of Mediter- 

 ranean shells, Nassa, Gyprcea, and Bucdnum; and the skeleton and 

 surrounding earth were stained red by oxide of iron, as was the 

 case with the skeleton discovered in 1872. Extinct animals were 

 also found at a higher level than this second skeleton ; but from 

 letters received from Mr. Charles Moore, F.G.S., who is now at 

 Mentone, it may be inferred that the time of inhumation of these 

 remains of elephant, rhinoceros, and cave-bear, in subaerial breccias 

 at different altitudes in the cliffs, will have to be critically ascertained 

 before their geological bearing on the age of the human skeletons 

 can be finally settled. (Preface, p. vii.) 



Dealing with the period immediately preceding that in which we 

 have positive traces of man, the entire chapter on the Crags of 

 Norfolk and Suffolk has been re- written by the author, who has 

 incorporated the information recently published by Messrs. Prestwich, 

 Gwyn Jeffreys, Searles V. Wood, senr, and junr., and F. Harmer. 



Under the head of the Glacial Period, new light has been obtained 

 from the observations of Dr. Nordenskiold, whose valuable paper on 

 Greenland, translated from the original Danish, was published in the 

 Geological Magazine last year. 



In the 3rd part the author has added the new facts relating to 

 evolution derived from the class Aves and Eeptilia. That last in- 

 stance of a remarkable dentigerous bird from the London Clay of 

 Sheppey {Odontopteryx toUapicus), brought forward by Prof. Owen 

 at the Geological Society on the 25th of June last, was not of course 

 known to Sir Charles Lyell. 



From the final page, under the heading "Transmutation and 



