1867.] Archeology and Ethnology. 377 



Eobcrt H. Collyer on " The Fossil Human Jaw from Suffolk," in 

 which the author quotes the opinions of several eminent osteolo- 

 gists as to the age of this famous " Coprolite Jaw." Mr. Busk, who 

 has most carefully examined it, states that " though not of the 

 portentous antiquity it would have claimed, had it been cotemporary 

 of Eleplias meridionalis, the ' coprolite jaw ' fairly claims a con- 

 siderable age." The beds at Foxhall, near Ipswich, from which the 

 jaw was said to have been obtained, belong to the coprolite-yielding 

 Bed Crag, and are of the age of Elephas meridionalis, so clearly 

 Mr. Busk thinks it is of posterior date. Mr. Collyer, however, 

 observes that " when he [Mr. Busk] says the coprolite jaw is of very 

 great antiquity he admits the whole question." 



The 'Journal of the Anthropological Society' contains an in- 

 teresting paper by Lieut.-Col. Lane Fox, entitled " A Description 

 of certain Piles found near London Wall and Southwark, possibly 

 the remains of Pile Buildings." The bones found with the piles at 

 London AYall belong chiefly to domestic animals, but mixed, 

 according to Mr. Carter Blake, with a cave-species of goat (Capra 

 pyrenaicd) and with two extinct species of ox, viz. Bos longifrons 

 and Bos trochoceros. The works of art associated with them 

 were, curiously enough, partly Eoman, and partly of a ruder 

 construction, namely, " handles and points of bone," which, in the 

 opinion of Professor Owen and Mr. Blake, "may possibly have 

 been formed with flint;" but Col. Lane Fox has been unable to 

 ascertain that they were found at a lower level than the Koman 

 remains, or that any flint implements have been found in the place. 

 Still, to whatever period this mixture of remains may belong, the 

 occurrence of traces of pile-dwellings in the valley of the Thames is 

 a fact of very high interest. 



There is also a paper by the Kev. Dunbar Heath " On the "Way 

 in which Large Bodies of Mute Men would acquire Language from 

 Small Bodies of Speaking Men." 



Almost simultaneously with the discovery of pile-dwellings in 

 London has appeared the announcement of the finding of flint 

 implements, associated with the remains of living and extinct species 

 of mammals, in Paris. Amongst the mammals are Elephas primi- 

 genius, Eleplias antiquus. Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Hippopotamus 

 amphibius, Bos primigenius, Bos taurus, Cervus Canadensis, 

 Cervus elaphus, &c. Further details are given in two papers in 

 the last number of the 'Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de 

 France,' * namely, " Becherches archeologiques et paleontologiques 

 faites dans l'interieur de Paris," by M Keboux ; and " Sur les 

 instruments humains et les ossements d'animaux trouves par MM. 

 Martin et Keboux dans le terrain quaternaire de Paris," by M. 

 Albert Gaudry. 



* Vol. xxiv., No. 2. 



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