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the ae sun.” Most remarkable it is that implements, which 
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in Southern Africa and in the so-called lateritic deposits of the 
south of In dia 
The 
made about ten years ago b %. Bruce er of the Indian 
i oe wear but at that “Aime the absence of organic re- 
rindi: of India for the year 1873, Mr. Medlicott, however, give 
an account of a quartzite implement of precisely the same class as 
those found in Southern India, which was disc phat en n the 
a Aleposits of the Narbadé poi These depos z, who h, 
by the late Dr, Falconer, were regarded as Pliocene, Mr. "Medlicott 
sees roi to place among those of Pleistocene icheve 
view may eventually prove to be correct, we have in India, as in 
temporaries. This cies discovery remains, ci ever, a soli- 
tary instance, but anak surely lead to other and even more in- 
teresting results from the si rset of those dhe in the 
wide field = geologic my researches dia. 
F rneo, W have =a to hope there are, at the 
present mome nt, some cavern-investigations being carried on under 
the og a of several Fellows of this eee ba who ha 
aided me by their support, it is not, I think, unreasonable to 
expect ‘that one light may be thrown on the antiquity of man in 
the far East. When we look back upon all the large array of 
facts while have been accumulated on this subject during the ee 
ixteen years, we may find good ground for encouragement, 
nt, et stro scientia 
3. Protriton petrolei of the Upper Coal-Measures of Muse a nd 
Millery, France, a naked-skinned Salamander.—M. A, GaupRY, 
describes the specimens, to which he has given the ears name, 
the Bulletin of the Geo mop Society of — 1875, p. 299, an 
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in length from 35 to 45 millimeters. The head is much larget 
rr than in the Salamander, and the tail much — 
orbits are very large. There are "29 vertebre, 3 cervical, } 
dorsal, 8 lumbar and 8 very small caudal; the ribs are very short; 
there are only traces of a pelvis, owing probably to its having 
