760 General Notes. [ November, 
Professor Dawkins drew particular attention to the promiscuous 
character of the bones found in palzolithic cave-deposits. These 
bones belong to extinct or still living northern and tropical ani- 
mals, and to such as pertain by their nature to moderate climates. 
In explanation of this fact he says: “ There existed in those times 
a vast continent contiguous to Africa, and stretching as far as the 
extreme limits of Ireland and Scotland. In summer the lion, 
in their chemical composition, which certainly would not be the 
‘case if long periods had intervened between the time of their ex- 
istence. The views of Mr. James Geikie,.as given in his “ Great 
Ice Age,” were strongly opposed by the lecturer. 
ber of the Matériaux pour L Histoire Primitive et Naturelle de 
L Homme contains a long and highly illustrated review of the 
splendid work by Mr. Ernest Chantre, relating to the Bronze Age 
of the Rhone district. A copy of the large map accompanying 
that work is presented to the readers of the M/atériaux. This map 
embraces France and the adjacent parts of Germany and Switzer- 
land. All points of archzological interest, such as caves, pala- 
fittes, tumuli, dolmens, etc., are indicated on it by different signs, 
denoting by their colors the probable age to which each locality 
pertains. 
The Proceedings of the Berlin Anthropological Society for 
1877 (Verhandlungen der Berliner Anthropologischen Gesellschaft) 
were lately received. On the 7th of April the Anthropological 
ociety, in conjunction with the Geographical Society of the same 
city, gave a reception to the Emperor of Brazil. On this occasion 
Professor Virchow delivered a long and interesting address on 
the anthropology of America. A translation into English would 
be very desirable. 
GEOLOGY AND PALAIONTOLOGY. 
Tue REPTILES oF THE UPPER Jurassic OF THE NORTH OF 
France.—Dr. H. E. Sauvage has described in the Buletin of the 
Geological Society of France a description of some bones of the 
limbs of a Sauropterygian reptile, which he refers to the genus 
Polycotylus, under the name of P. suprajurensis. A Dinosaurian 
of the same horizon he refers to the genus /gwanodon, under the 
name of Z. precursor. Dr. Sauvage adds to the list the previously 
known species, Megalosaurus insignis Desl., Omosaurus armatus 
Ow., and Bothriospondylus suffossus Ow., all Dinosauria. He ob- 
tains Megalosaurys-like teeth from the Gault of the Meuse and of 
Ardennes. 
A Quaternary Camet From Roumania.—Professor Step- 
hanesco, of Belgrade, recently communicated to the Geological 
