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belonged.* The artist has given to it, not only the tusks with eccentric curvature which 
are so common in the  drini-gravels, ss also psy mar ken ta n a most unmistakable way; the 
long hairy 1 tl 
north of Tusai: raer that extinct animal. Th specimen, therefore, is most 
seaport mens, no’ niot only foes an example of the er early das , but also bee it stamps the 
Mr. Dawkins states that the Reindeer Folk seem to have differed 
from the Flint Folk, ‘because, although both lived very much under 
tae same physical conditions, in no case are their implements or 
h ‘ 
dicate a, more civilized as well as more modern people, and the small 
handles of their sag oy the similarity, of the bone needles, of the 
i nimals on 
deer Folk, have caused this fossil race to be compared to the present 
Esquimaux. Itis indeed, as Mr. Dawkins states, not improbable that 
the oleae or allied races, formerly ranged as far south as the 
Alps or Pyren 
he differences Dies these two races are also borne out by other 
palæon iy RS evidence. With those of the Flint Folk occur remains 
of the‘ Sabre-toothed Lion (or Tiger), the Elephas Antiquus, the Hip- 
the Pliocene.” In the refuse heaps of the Reindeer Folk, however, 
only two extinct species of mammalia are found, the Irish Elk, and the 
Mammoth, “both of which sprang into being in the Pleistocene [or 
Quaternary] period.” 
“The three pana that especially characterize the Reindeer de- 
posits of Dordogne, as compared with those of the Flint Folk age, are 
the Antelope Saita. the Ibex, and the Chamois; of e the former 
ranges now through the great central STE of Asia, the second lives 
in the Pyrenees, and the last in the Alps 
After these two races had passed w their soil was occupied 
western Europe by a people whom Sir John Lubbock terms Neolithic 
(neos, young; liier, stone). This race invented the use of pottery, 
and the art of sp ning. 
cles, which dwelt in wá the bottoms of which are now known under the name of = 
‘oon ener ‘ith hill ia tein neva for the piapa 
buried without t burning.” 
Their implements were elaborated with more skill; they had do 
ticated the dog, and in the Pile-works of Switzerland are found eit 
* Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 5e. ser. t. iV., 6 cahier, 
