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NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 791 
ral History of the Human Species” (1848), to the question of 
“ Bones of Man among Organic Remains” of which the following 
is a brief summary :— In a conversation with the author in 1824, 
Cuvier admitted that the opinions then in vogue on the point 
would require considerable modification. Donati, Germer, Ras- 
oumouski, and Guetard, maintained that human bones had been 
found intermixed with those of lost species of mammals in sev- 
eral places ; they had been detected in England in caves and fis- 
sures ; they were found at Meissen in Saxony, and at Darford in 
France, by M. Firmas. A fossilized skeleton found in the schist 
at Quebec, and in part preserved at the seminary, excited no at- 
tention ; and the well known Guadaloupe skeletons had been pro- 
nounced recent upon hypothetical reasoning. Those discovered 
by M. Schmerling in the Liége caverns were similarly disposed of, 
and Dr. Lund’s reports respecting partially petrified human bones, 
found by him in the interior of Brazil, in the same condition with 
those of numerous animals, now extinct, which accompanied them, 
attracted no more than incredulous attention. In the caverns of 
Bize, in France, human bones and shreds of pottery were found 
in red clay mixed with the débris of extinct mammalia ; a similar 
collocation was soon after detected by M. de Serres, in the caverns 
of Pondres and Souvignargues ; and Dr. Boué found human bones 
mixed with others of extinct species at Lahr. In 1833, human 
bones were found together with several species of the well known 
extinct cave mammals, in caves near Liége, beneath a thick coat 
of stalagmite ; and about the same period, the Rey. Mr. MacEmery 
collected from the caves of Torquay, human bones and flint knives, 
amongst a great variety of extinct species, all under a crust of 
stalagmite upon which the head of a wolf reposed. Amongst the 
bones of the mammoth and his contemporaries, found at Oreston, 
near Plymouth, at different times before and after that period, the 
upper portion of the humerus of a man was detected, and imme- 
diately thrown away as valueless on being pointed out to the pos- 
sessor. About the end of the last century, gypsum quarries were 
opened in the Vale of Kostniz, in Upper Saxony. The gypsum 
was groin in every direction by caves and fissures, which 
were filled with red clay containing clusters of bones of mamma- 
lia, iniia man, elephant, rhinoceros, horse, ox, elk, deer, rein- 
deer, a great felis, hyzena, hare, and rabbit. A fragment of an 
arm and a thigh-bone of a man were dug out of the clay at a 
