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date in other countries becomes more extended, we ought to become 

 prepared to grapple with a problem of so much interest. 



A work, entitled ' L'Homme fossile en Europe, son Industrie, ses 

 Mceurs, ses (Euvres d'Art,' by M. Le Hon, has just been published at 

 Brussels ; and as the subject of it is coextensive with the range of 

 this chronicle, it ought not to be passed over without notice in these 

 pages. At the same time, as a work of this kind necessarily partakes 

 more or less of the nature of a compilation, a detailed analysis of it 

 would simply be a repetition, in a great measure, of what has 

 already been stated in this and our last Chronicle. We shall there- 

 fore select for record one or two observations of the author, which 

 contain what seem to be expressions of original views on certain 

 subjects ; and we must state our regret that they do not in all cases 

 bear such intrinsic marks of probability as to ensure their un- 

 questioned acceptance. M. Le Hon very properly places the first 

 appearance of man, according to our present knowledge, after the 

 epoch of Elephas meridionalis, the evidence of his contemporaneity 

 with that animal being too doubtful for acceptance, In Europe he 

 believes man to have first appeared after the diminution, to a 

 greater or less extent, of the ice of the Glacial period, and after the con- 

 temporaneous upheaval of that continent. He seems to favour the 

 idea that the human race migrated from Asia to the newly raised 

 countries ; but at the same time he believes man to have been very 

 little more civilized than animals ; and amongst other character- 

 istics of our remote ancestors, he enumerates that of their teeth, 

 indicating that they lived on fruits and roots ; but how M. Le Hon 

 became possessed of this astonishing idea surpasses our compre- 

 hension. 



The author discusses the question whether the early cave- 

 dwellers were cannibals. He accepts the evidence in support 

 of an affirmative conclusion, but doubts its sufficiency ; and, with 

 much reason, he leaves the matter without coming to a deci- 

 sion. It will not be necessary for us to discuss the questions 

 raised in the succeeding chapters, which contain very little that is 

 new, but a great deal that must be useful to a student. We 

 should observe, also, that in treating of the ages of polished stone, 

 of bronze, and of iron (Early Iron age), the author seems to be 

 much more at home than in discussing the earlier periods, of which 

 his account is excessively meagre. 



Mr. J. E. Lee has published in the ' Geological Magazine ' for 

 last December a translation of three reports by Dr. Oscar Fraas, 

 " On the Pre-historic Settlements of the Reindeer Age in Southern 

 Germany." It appears that the deepening of the spring-head and 

 the watercourse of the Schussen brook, by the proprietor of some 

 mills in Schussenreid, led to the discovery of gigantic horns of the 

 reindeer, with smaller ones of all ages, as well as bones of the same 



