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longitudinally and pierced near the base ; tlie jaw of a beaver, 

 various instruments formed from bones of rhinoceros {Bh. Merckii ?) 

 ox (Bos prhnigenius), fox, badger, from teeth of horse, of stag's 

 horn, and terra-cotta, which apparently belong to the age of 

 the Swiss Lake-habitations ; handles made of horn for flint im- 

 plements, and some stone implements. Five plates are devoted to 

 the contents of this cavern, and the figures are of the natural size. 

 Here were also found some instuments of the Bronze and even of the 

 Iron Age, and a fibula of silver; but these latter had apparently 

 fallen in at a superior opening. 



4th. Several caverns in the neighbourhood of Ganges (Herault). 

 In which were found flint implements, bones of man, ox, and goat ; 

 teeth of fox, pierced by man ; two valves of the common mussel, 

 bones of Ursus spelceus, Cervus elapTius, and Capra cegagrus that had 

 evidently been fractured by man. 



5th. Cavern of Bize (Aude). Bones of Eqims cahaUus, Bos primi- 

 genius, Capra cegagrus, Antilope Christolii, Bupicapra, Cervus Behoulii, 

 C. tarandus, Canis lupus, G. vulpes, Felis sevaloides, Ursus spelceus, 

 Hyaena spelcea, embedded with human remains and implements made 

 of stone and of the bone of many of the above animals, together 

 with the following shells : — Pectunculus glycimeris, Pecten jacohceus, 

 Mytilus edulis, Buccinum reticulatum, Natica mille-punctata, Turho neri- 

 toideus, Clyclonassa neritcea, Cyprcea coccinella, some of which had 

 been perforated by man. 



6. Caverns of Mialet, etc. (Gard), where occur bones of Felis 

 antiqua, in addition to those mentioned before, and Antelope Mialeti. 



Chapter IV. contains remarks on Ehinoceros and a few other 

 genera of Pleistocene mammals, having reference more especially on 

 the identity of their species, and on what has been recorded about 

 them by other palaeontologists. 



Chapter V. gives an account of the fossils of Algeria, and a com- 

 parison of the Quaternary mammals with those of Western Europe, 

 and their living representatives in Central Africa. 



In Chapter YI. the reader is furnished with an account of all the 

 known mammals of the Quaternary period, and the localities where 

 the remains of the rarer species have been met with. 



OUR SCIENTIFIC AND POPULAR JOURNALS. 



I. The Popular Science Eeview (No. 27) for April contains, in 

 addition to much other interesting scientific matter, an excellent and 

 most instructive article on " The Gems and Precious Stones of Great 

 Britain." By Professor John Morris, F.G.S., of University College. 



After giving a brief historical account of the uses to which pre- 

 cious stones are applied by Oriental races, and of the traditions con- 

 nected with various species of gems, the author proceeds to describe 

 those which occur in the British Islands, — e.g. the garnet, topaz, 

 beryl or emerald, sapphire (?), and the varieties of amorphous and 

 crystallized quartz, as rock-crystal, amethyst, cairngorm, agate, 

 onyx, calccdouy, jasper, opal, etc. In Great Britain these are 



