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ing urns, near Reudorf (Bohemia), and to the partly uncovered 
old burying-hills near Winklarn (Infer. Austria). The investiga- - 
tions in Carniolia, conducted by M. F. Schulf, proved eminently 
successful. Three tumuli have been opened, containing many 
sepulchral urns, iron and bronze objects and glass and yellow 
amber pearl. Director F. de Hochstetter himself conducted the 
diggings near Watsch. Eighty burial-places with as many urns, 
filled with ashes and burnt bones, and several others, containing 
skeletons were brought to daylight. Many well-preserved bronze 
fibule of different pattern, iron points of lances and celts have 
been found, together with a bronze helmet with double crest, 
quite like one from the burial ground near Hallstatt (Upper Aus- 
tria). During the winter of 1881 to 1882, a shepherd dug out a 
kettle, made of laminated silver, adorned with figures, now in the 
Provincial Museum of Saibach (Carniolia)— Communicated by Dr. 
F. V. Hayden, 
- rit » When the mammoths lived.” How he extended the 
ee Ai Northern Europe and the British Isles and to North 
m erica as the result of personal observation is a matter of com- 
on scientific history. 
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