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ai —— Hata sans ah tr row a nen ee which is appar- 
ne found b de Vibraye in the 
pet of ae Bourgogne, a tsornted equally fi the Hlephas primi- 
genius and the patented: tichorinus ; this peculiarity has also been o 
served in nine other jaws collected doneline in a eavern called the Cave 
of Frontal, at Furfooz. Mr. Dupont’s discovery of these human remains 
is confirmed by Mr. Dumon, chief engineer of bridges and causeways, 
Mr. Eugene Coemans, Mr. John Jones, and Lord Talbot of Malahide, who 
who were Tao of its sri oni with the other remains. The hu- 
man bones have also been subm im to Messrs. Van Beneden, 
Spring, Bruner-Bey, Lartet, de pee Paik and Carl Vogt. 
r. Dupont has found associated with these human remains many 
ness of finish. Moreover, the edges of this fragment of 
which appear to have been made with very ; sharp instr nsaioner Some 
persons, among whom is Mr. Quatrefages, believe that it is evidence of 
some peculiar method of cracking. Many fragments of marrow bones 
ent also indications of man analogous to what has been found in 
— — the bones evidently having been broken by the hand of 
and not that these species did not exist before, or after, the 
Although i in this case the beds of rolled pebbles are characterized by the 
presence of the Hlephas primigenius, it does not follow that this species 
occurs only in this deposit, for we find it with the Hlephas meridionalis 
in the Forest beds, as has been established by Sir C, Lyell in his Antiquity 
of Man, p. 224, and it was still mb in Belgium during the deposit of 
the stratified alluvial beds (leh e leus seems to present 
an an ene saad fact, since the aeee Pei rolled pebbles of the cave of Fron- 
tal has furnished a canine tooth that ap to belong to this species, 
amples of the same fact. Finally the reindeer seems to have lived, a 
the age of the Hlephas meridionalis, in more southern regions than those 
in which it is now w found ; it existed in our regions with the Hlephas pri- 
migenius, Rhinoceros tichorinus, &c., but it never acquired there that great 
numerical development which permits us to regard “it as characterizing 
y its remains a long geological epoch subsequent to the disappeara 
of these large Quaternary species 
The article continues with results of other observations of interest.— 
L’ Institut, Nov. 21st, 1866. 
10. Hitbnerite, a new mineral.—-E. Riorre has described, in the Reese 
River Reveille, a new tungstate of manganese, entirely free from iron, 
