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(2) that of the tubulation and other structures similar to those of 
Eozoon preserved in the Paleozoic rocks. 
case in very few other instances, The railway company have given 
the find to have been a most important one, and one that may well 
come under the notice of the International Congress of Archeology 
and Anthropology at their meeting this year, where the whole 
{nestion of bone caves and their contents is to form a prominent 
Subject for discussion. 
he cave in question was originally, when first discovered about 
two years ago, 28 metres (about 91 ft.) long, and was 
fissure in the Jura limestone, which had been enlarged by running 
water. Its Opening was visible half way up the mountain side, 
partly hidden in dense woods. It stretched from north to south, 
year has already cut away one half of the cave; but unfortunately 
the contents were employed on the line. On this account, only the 
Part not touched was able to be excavated and examined, and this 
middle 3 metres (9} ft.) deep. Wood ashes and pieces of coal, to- 
gether with pieces of pottery, had accumulated to about the height 
ad ich were sharp splinters of flint, 
and a thick mass of broken and split bones, and the shattered 
pkulls and jaw bones of a heterogeneous mass of animals of all 
kinds. In the lowest layer no trace of men, either by their remains 
or by their handiwork, could be found; all the remains consiste 
of bones of animals 
chiefly the cave bear, hyena, and lion. ‘These 
»ve-dwelling animals appear to have been the first and earliest 
Possessors of the cave. But soon after this, men must have dis- 
