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Edwards and Lartet, the age of the Aurochs, with which Man was con- 
porary. 
As to the lower beds, it is evident to us, from the abundant remains of 
the Reindeer, including large quantities of its horns; from the coarseness 
of its wrought objects, its worked flints and its sculpture; from the red- 
dish brown color of the bones, and from the absence o gelatine and-their 
adhering to the tongue, that they pertain to an epoch more ancient than 
the preceding. It was the age of the Reindeer, parallel with that which 
The cave of Lourdes has thus afforded the first example of the direct 
12. On further discoveries of Flint Implements and Fossil Mam- 
malia ; by J. Wyatt, Esq., F.G.S.—The opening of a section at Sum- 
of the upper level at Biddenham. Although, as might have been expect- 
ed, some of the species of mammals were found to common to the 
two localities, yet that under notice furnished some species of mammals, 
as well as of land and freshwater shells, together with a few types of flint 
implements, differing from those met with at higher levels. 
r att described the section at Summerhouse Hill in detail, show- 
After describing the implements from near Southampton, and having 
shown that their condition is identical with that of the materials com- 
the author then described the Fisherton implements, 
and the ravel-pits from which they were obtained. The relation of the 
high-level gravels (in which the i y : : 
t discussed, and the geo 
ts p: described, lists of the 
and the Land and Freshwater Shells) 
