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Vv. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, 
Quignon has given seat interest to eiploatiois at that place. At the 
meeting of the Academy of Sciences of July 18th, Mr. de ee 
nted the results of new discoveries of human remains in co mu- 
nications from Mr. Boucher de Perthes. From these oorivhinnieatlols it 
appears that on the 24th of April last, Boucher de Perthes, along with 
Dr. Dubois, physician of the Hotel-Dieu at Abbeville, found, in a yellow- 
ish-brown bed to e right of the quarry, a portion of a a uman sacrum, 
fragments of tee bones, some of which were parts of a cranium, and a 
human molar tooth. On the Ist of May, they sbtatned's on further ae 
ging, three small fragments of a cranium and a part of a tooth. On th 
12th of May, Mr. Boucher de Perthes was joined by Mr. H. Duy 
They procured from the brownish-yellow bed, at a depth of six to seven 
feet, portions of a cranium. 
On the 11th of May, besides fragments of bones, a human jaw-bone 
was turned out, which was perfect excepting the extremity of the right 
enu mies of specimens of bones collected amounts to 200, and they 
were all found within an extent of about 130 feet. Part are of animals, 
@ catalogue of which is soon ves re made out. The human pict ap- 
Parently indicate a very small race of men.—Les Mondes, July 2 
teroceanic canal across she Isthmus between the two y de 1cas,— 
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