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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



[June 



in all probability they were associated with them. They fed on the 

 mammoth, the lion, the cave hyena, and bear, and they made use of a 

 crude and formidable type of lance-head, smooth on one face, rough on 

 the other, the edges being sharp. It is this special form which consti- 

 tutes the Moustier type of weapon. 



The Laugerie- Haute flints show a finish which is remarkable, and 

 their fineness and beauty are characteristics of the locality. 



To what place did the Cro-Magnon race disappear ? This is a 

 question which to the present day still remains unanswered. 

 Anthropologists are agreed, however, that both the Canstadt and Cro- 

 Magnon races have not as yet disappeared, and can be traced even at 

 the present day. , Quatrefages" tells us that Hamy, who has laboured 

 so much in the interests of anthropology, extending and enlarging this 

 interesting branch of study, has met with the type amongst the Zaraus 

 collection of Basque skulls collected by Broca and Velasco ; he has 

 traced it in the remains from the megalithic tombs of Africa explored 

 by General Faidherbe ; he has traced it in the Kabyles of Beni Masser, 

 and in the Djurjura. 



The type was likewise traced amongst the inhabitants of the Canary 

 Islands, and is seen in the skulls forming the collection of the Barranco 

 Hindu at Teneriffe. In that collection Hamy noted skulls, the ethnical 

 relation of which to the old man of Cro-Magnon was indisputable. 



The chief centre of the Cro-Magnon races was the south-west of 

 what now is modern France. The Vezere was, so to speak, the cradle 

 of the race. Its descendants spread into Italy and the north of France, 

 invading the valley of the Meuse, where they encountered numbers of 

 other races who disputed their settling. And so mixing with these, 

 assisted by conquest or otherwise, we find, as time advances, what are 

 known as the historic invasions taking place, and it is from a mixture 

 of these elements brought together by war, and fused by the experi- 

 ences of peace, that our European society of the present day has 

 originated. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



THE SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY. 



E. Step, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Mr. H. B. Laurence, of Anerley, was elected a member. 



Mr. South exhibited a bred series of Boarmia cinctaria, Schift., with the parent 

 female from Glengariff, Ireland. Like the female, they were pale, but not so pale as 

 those captured by Mr. Kane some time ago. Also the New Postal Box, invented by 



* " Human Species," p. 335. 



