10 34 The American Naturalist. [November, 
generally small ; worked flint in the form of points, arrow-heads and 
others; worked bones, arms, tools, pendeloques, ornaments, harpoons, 
a fish-hook in two pieces worked with a joint. He has many fragments 
of pottery, which had been decorated as is common among the Indians 
of North America; that is, by pressing upon the soft clay certain 
textile fabrics, strings, cords, twine, etc., which made the ornamen- 
tation. 
The Prince has sent to the U. S. National Museum a series of casts, 
as well as several aa pieces of prehistoric pottery, all decorated 
as above described. These were exchanged for a series from the 
United States, The similarity of these two series so widely distant is 
remarkable. The astonishment of the beholder is increased when he is 
told that heretofore this mode of decoration was believed to be con- 
fined to the United States, and that none except that here described 
have ever been reported from Europe. | 
The Prehistoric Man of Spy. 
exhibits at the recent meeting of the International Geological Congress 
at Washington was that of M. Max Lohest, of Liége, Belgium. Although 
unfortunately M. Lohest’s paper was crowded out, and consequently 
the members had not the advantage of hearing it, yet his photographs 
and pamphlet were examined by several: of those who combine arch- 
eology with geology. 
M. Lohest’s paper read before the Anthropological Congress gives 
an account of his investigation in the grotto of Spy, near Namur, on 
the property of the Count of Beauffort. In this cavern M. Lohest 
found, under a thick bed of rubbish and fallen fragments of limestone, 
three distinct ossiferous beds. The uppermost of these was in part 
stalagmitic, and contained a few bones of an undetermined deer, a 
bear’s tooth, and some pieces of thesbones of the mammoth. Besides 
these, and mingled with them, were great numbers of flint implements 
of various patterns, some of them resembling the type known as 
‘‘Mousterien,’’ from the cavern of that name, and others are like 
those found in the well-known Engis cave in Belgium. Some are 
notched like saws, and of very thin and delicate workmanship. They 
consist of scrapers, points, blades, knives, etc., worked on one face, 
some apparently to be set in handles, and others not. 
No instruments of bone or of ivory were found in this upper layer, 
and the flints are mostly covered with a white or bluish patina, some- 
times very thick. 

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