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GEOLOGY. 



not infrequently meet with evidence of human occupation, as the 

 charcoal and ashes of fires,—- -the burnt and broken fragments of the 

 bones of animals upon which he subsisted, — the rude implements of 

 stone and bone which served as his weapons in the chase, or for 

 domestic purposes, and even — but more rarely — rudely incised 

 figures of the animals he saw and hunted, or the cherished orna- 

 ments of shell or bone which he had laboured to make for the deco- 

 ration of his person. 



It often happens that the same cave has served at different periods 

 as a refuge for man and for various wild beasts — such, for instance, 

 as the cave-lion, bear, or hyaena. Examples of remains of these 

 animals, and of the gnawed bones of their prey, may be seen from 

 JBrixham, and Kent's Cavern, near Torquay; Kirkdale, Yorkshire; 

 Gower, Glamorganshire; and other caves in England; from Bruni- 

 quel and Dordogne in France ; from . Gailenreuth, &c, in Franconia ; 

 and from Minas Geraes, Brazil. * 



ORDER I.— BIMANA. 



Man. — In the first Table-case are placed various human remains 

 from Kent's Cavern, from the Gower Caves, from a turbary, near 

 Lewes ; from Bruniquel, in France ; from Mulhausen ; from Brazil ; 

 casts of the Engis and Neanderthal skulls ; also examples of the 

 barbed harpoons made of reindeer-antler ; bone needles ; worked 

 horns and bones; carved objects, and incised representations of 

 animals from Neschers, from Bruniquel, and from the cavern of 

 Les Eyzies, Dordogne ; together with numerous stone implements 

 from various localities, illustrative of Prehistoric Man. 



In an upright Wall-case (A), near Table-case 1a, is placed the 

 Fossil Human Skeleton brought from Guadaloupe, in the West 

 Indies, by Sir Alexander Cochrane, R.N., and presented to the 

 Museum by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Human 

 skeletons are found in the island of Guadaloupe in the solid lime- 

 stone rock which occurs on the sea-shore at the base of the cliffs, and 

 which is more or less covered by the sea at high-water. This lime- 

 stone rock, which is of modern formation, is composed of sand, the 

 detritus of shells and corals of species still inhabiting the adjacent 

 sea ; it also contains some species of land-shells identical with those 

 now living on the island. Accompanying the skeletons are found 

 arrow-heads, fragments of rude pottery, and other articles of human 

 workmanship. 



ORDER II. — QUADRUMANA. 



Monkeys. — The remains of the Quadrumana (four-handed ani- 

 mals), including at the present day the " Aye-Aye," and Lemurs, 

 from Madagascar, and the various families of the monkey tribe (the 



