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ful instance has been recorded in a paper, " L'age du Eenne en 

 Maconnais — Memoire sur le gisement archeologique du clos du cliarnier 

 a Solutre, Departement Saone et Loire, par H. de Perry and A. Arcelin, 

 read at the third meeting, August 28th, 1868, of the International 

 Congress of Prehistoric Archoeology, at Norwich, published in Vol III 

 of the Transactions of that Meeting, page 319, and sequ. In the 

 kitchen middens of the prehistoric people -at Solutre who killed and ate 

 the mammoth, reindeer, and horse, the bones were found in such a 

 perfect state of preservation that they might be taken for fresh. Here 

 is the principal passage having reference to it, page 328 : "a part 

 quelques os brules, formant un residu noir et cendreux tous les debris 

 d'animaux sont comme nous l'avons deja dit, d'une conservation 

 etonnante. On .pourrait les croire frais, certaines cornes de renne 

 sont encore extremement dures, et degagent quand on les travaille, 

 l'odeur de la come fraiche. Les os fragmentes out concerve une 

 quantite considerable de leur gelatine." 



As these kitchen middens date back to a period when quite other 

 meteorological conditions existed in Central Europe, when a fauna 

 different from the present, and containing the mammoth, the reindeer, 

 the horse and some others, now mostly extinct, peopled that country ? 

 and served as food to a prehistoric race many thousand years ago, 

 I need scarcely dwell any longer on the subject, the more so as 

 some of the best preserved Moa-bones, with skia, sinews, and 

 feathers found in the Earnscleugh caves were accompanied by the 

 bones of the Anas Finschil, an extinct duck having considerable 

 affinities with the miocene Anas Blancliardii of Prance. As that 

 duck has well developed wings, its extinction cannot be traced 

 to the hand of man, or other recent causes, but must be referred to 

 others obtaining in an era far antecedent to ours. I have added to the 

 illustrations a pkotolithograph of AptornU otidiformis, a skeleton of a 

 gigantic Rail, standing two feet seven inches high, and a lithograph of 

 a fine skeleton of Dinomis maximas, teu feet six inches high, with the 

 skeleton of a Moriori, from the Chatham Islands, for comparison at its 

 side. These three skeletons are preserved in the Canterbury Museum. 



(D) G-lexm:aek. 



This chapter would be wanting in completeness, did I not offer a 

 few notes on the now farfamed locality Glenmark, the property of my 

 friend Mr Gr H Moore, to whose generosity Science is deeply indebted 



