90 The American Naturalist. [January, 
The workman told M. de Baye that he had found the Chellean and ` 
Mousterian specimens close together in the same top layer, and the latter 
repeated the statement before the meeting of the Societé de Anthro- 
pologie at Paris on July 15, 1893, reading also a letter from M. Siret 
the geologist who said he had discovered in the summer of 1892, 30 
Chellean, 1 Solutrian (broad thin well worked leaf shaped blade) and 
6 Mousterian specimens in the self same upper stratum. 
Two Mousterian objects of this list were shown but how many of the — 
37 were found with M. Sirets’ own hands in place does not appear. 
If these stone Implement types running through the drift deposits — 
and cave layers of France. (a) Chellean (River Drift), (b) Mous — 
terian (cave period of chipping flakes on one side only) (c) Solutrian 
(cave period of finest blade chipping) and (d) Magdalenian (cave period 
of bone implements and animal sketching) represent cultural epochsin — 
Mans’ ‘evolution as is claimed by M. de Mortillet, then these Spanish — 
specimens should have been found in separate layers, or at intervals, — 
and not all close together at about 6 to 15 feet from the surface. 
M. de Mortillet objected at the meeting that hearsay did not prové 4 
the alleged mingling. He said that the two Chellean “ Turtle-backs | 
shown were not typical and believed that if the case were reconsidered 
a sequence of the types would be found in the different layers at San 
Isidro, as in France. 
It was unfortunate that M. Siret was not there to explain his startling ; 
assertion that everything was unclassifiably jumbled together in thè 
upper layer. But to find the Chellean at the top, was what I afterward - 
did when I pulled out a leaf shaped “turtle-back” of flint’ from the 
perpendicular bank of the Carreña Sacerdotal at a depth of 180 
metres from the surface, on Dec. 31, 1892.—H. C. MERCER. 
The non-existence of Paleolithic Culture.—Mr. J. D- a 
McGuire in the American Anthropologist for July, 1893, denies the i 
existence of a time when Man chipped but could not polish stone. 
Assailing not the antiquity of human remains but their cultural sigh — 
ficance, and backed by his valuable and unique experience in the cary — 
ing, polishing and boring processes of the stone age, he attacks Sir Joh 
Lubbocks celebrated definition as follows. a 
(1) Battering and grinding is easier than chipping and so must have 
Hit 
(2) Paleolithic Men made pottery for it is found in the Paleolithic | 
? Now in the Archæological Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at Phila- 
delphia. 
