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and attempted to show the relations between them and the various 
ages of man as manifested by the fauna of the mammoth, then of the 
reindeer, and finally of historic times. He showed a Chellèen instru- 
ment coming from a deposit of the time of the mammoth, from. one of 
the highest (altitude) localities. 
M. Amerano, Superior of the College of Finalmarini, Liguria, de- 
scribed his discovery at the station occupied by prehistoric man in the 
cavern of the de la Fée in that neighborhood, and 300 metres above 
the sea-level and one-and-a-half hours distant. He found in asingle day, 
within the space of four cubic metres, six entire heads of the cave 
bear, twenty large fragments of others, eighty under jaws, one hundred 
and ten teeth, etc., representing no fewer than fifteen hundred indi- 
viduals, There were two human occupations in this cavern; the ear- 
liest and lowest contained objects of human industry which Monsieur 
Reviere thought were similar to those of the most profound depths of 
the Grottes de Menton. The upper and later was entirely neolithic, 
with polished stone hatchets, gracing stones, and a piece of copper or 
bronze. 
The Mexican Tonalamatl of the Aubin collection, and the 
other calendars related to it, have been investigated by Dr. Edward 
Seler, and described in the ‘t Compte Rendu du Congrès International 
des Américanistes,’’ seventh session, Berlin, 1888, his illustrated report 
filling not less than 219 octavo pages, The tonalamatl is a representa- 
tion of the Mexican astrologic year of 260 days, and exists in several 
copies, differing considerably from the copy once in the possession of 
the French collector, Aubin. They represent heads of gods and genii, 
which are ornamented in various ways with symbols, and arranged in 
Squares. Before we can understand these astrologic calendars we have 
to discover which god or genius is meant in every instance, and 
to this task Seler’s pages are devoted, for the Spanish texts accompany; 
ing the pictures are not always clear enough. The erudition which 
Seler brings into play i is astonishing, and only a close comparison of 
his interpretation with the published pictures can convey to us an 
understanding of the astrologic art of the Mexican people. This article 
is Composed in German, as is also another publication of his, ‘ Alt- 
mexicanishe Studien,” published in the “ Veréffentlichungen aus dem 
Königlichen Museum fiir Vélkerkunde,’’ Vol. I., No. 4, fol., Berlin, 
1890. The first of Seler’s articles treats learnedly of “ A Chaput from 
the Miraris Aztec Materials Supplementary to the ‘ History’ of 
Father Sahagun ’’; the second deals with “¢ The So-called Sacral Vases of 
