
766 The American Naturalist. [August, 
Dr. Hamy, continuing the discussion of Question Sixth of the 
program, reviewed the new documents on the subject of the arche- 
ology of the primitive human race since the publication of his great 
work on the Crania Ethnica. The fragments found in the Grotte de 
Gourdan, which had been recently published, the under jaw from the 
Grotte of Malarnaud, found by M. Regnault, and described by 
Filhol, and which M. Hamy had presented,—these are, along with the 
bones of the men of Spy, the site new acquisitions of the race of 
Constadt. 
The race of Cro-Magnon is Se by several new discoveries, 
of which the most important was the discovery of the skull in the 
Grotte du Placard, which had been exhumed by M. Maret. 
Dr. Hamy described this piece, and assigned it a place in the ana- 
tomic series of the race of Cro-Magnon. We possess, said he, no new 
document or specimen of the types of Furfooz, the second type of 
which appears more and more to attach itself to the age of polished 
stone, which furnishes from one time to another in Southern Belgium 
new specimens, more or less characterized as belonging to this ethnic 
roup. 
Monsieur Felix Regnault sent a human lower jaw, incomplete, found 
in the Grotte of Malarnaud, in Ariege. Dr. Hamy declared it to 
have -great affinity with the similar pieces from Naulette, Goyet, etc., 
and other caverns in Belgium. 
Monsieur Marcellin Boule described the caverns of Malarnaud from 
which this under jaw came, and presented to the congress his written 
notes thereon. A section of the earth of the cavern and the place 
where this jaw was found was thus composed: rst, the superficial rub- 
bish ; 2d, the deposit of clay and gravel containing the remains of 
divers animals of prehistoric times,—the auroch, the reindeer, the 
mountain goat, etc; 3d, astrata of stalagmite; 4th, clay and gravel, 
—in this were the cave bear and lion, the wolf, mammoth, etc., and it 
was from this strata that the under jaw came. This is the stratum of the 
machoire de la Naulette, the skeletons of Spy, the skull of Engisheim, 
and probably that of Neanderthal. There were no specimens of 
Elephas antiquus, Rhinoceros merkii, or hippopotamus, or the ani- 
mals characteristic of the early Quaternary period, and which cor- 
respond to the human industry of Saint-Acheul and Chelles, and 
therefore, said Monsieur Boule, the Quaternary prehistoric man,—he o 
f the Chelleen epoch,—remained still unknown. 
r. Lagneau gave it as his opinion that this under jaw of Malarnaud 
belonged to the race of Canstadt or of Neanderthal, and he spoke of 

