320 Scientific tnaalingence. 
Europe, and the remarks succeeding, by Professor Dawkins, are 
cited = om a paper bearing the above t 
may dismiss at once the case fof suppo osed human remains], 
Samed irom the Dardanelles, of works of art found in deposits 
said to be of Miocene age. The desouintions? prove that it was 
not ers en on the authority of one oe nt to judge in such a 
case, and eS never has been confirm 
In beds said to be Miocene, se Thenay, near Pontlevoy, the 
Abbe Boargecie found flints which he si aa were dressed by 
man. ese flints are now exhibited in the Museum at St. Ger- 
mains, where I saw them with Sir Charles Lyell several —_ 
ago, a and again with —— since. Some of them seemed entirely 
natural, common forms, such as we find over the surface every- 
where, broken by all the various © cnidonan of heat and frost and 
blows. A few seemed as if they might have been man’s handi- 
work,—cores Hoe which he had struck off flakes such as we know 
were used by early man, of which I show examples. Yet this is 
not quite clear, for, had the evidence been good that they were 
found in re there still would have been a doubt whether they 
were man’s work. But when we came to inquire about the evl- 
dence that they occurred in beds of Miocene age, we learned that 
only those that we put down as natural were found by the Abbé 
himself; the others were brought in by workmen, picked up, we 
may suppose, upon the heaps turned over by their spades, and 80 
Beers just dropped down from the surfac 
t in the Crag the teeth of chaike. korea through, as if for 
Se poesiet ad a8 a string of ornaments such as com: 
monly are worn by savages. Of these I give e and ae one : 
the animal bored “thieik into the sand or hay below, Pe 
the tooth quite peal ed te bage seat and fin 
work, so good it was thought to be But if the mass was 
thick and near the surface, the little oink made a home entirely 
within it, and its shell often remains uy a and reveals the history 
and manner of formation of the hole of 
An account has also been given “by e Abbé Bourgeois © 
flints from Pliocene beds at St. Prest, nea “ys Chartres, said to be 
* Journ. Anthrop. Inst., vol. iii, p. 127, April, 1873. 
+ Journ. Anthrop. Inst., vol. ii, p. 91, April, 1872. 
