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of a coaly envelope of outer bark, presents the irregularly-ribbed and fur- 

 rowed surface, with occasional scars, so often seen on old Sigillarise and 

 their main roots. The central axis is cylindrical, and shows on its trans- 

 verse section a Medullosa resembling one described by Cotta. The outside 

 of this cylinder is striated longitudinally, like a Calamite, and not to be 

 distinguished from the Catamites remotus of Brongniart. Next comes a 

 cylinder of wedge-shaped bundles of barred vessels, in radiating series, 

 parted by spaces resembling medullary rays, in all respects similar to that 

 found in Stigmaria, Sigillaria, and Anabathra. Outside of the last, with 

 a small interval, is another cylinder composed of vessels not barred, 

 arranged in radiating series, and parted by large wedge-shaped bundles of 

 vessels running towards the circumference. The structure of this outer 

 cylinder is identical with that of Calamodendron, and its exterior has the 

 irregularly-ribbed and furrowed appearance previously alluded to. 



Yours truly, 



Edward William Einney. 



Manchester, June 10th, 1863. 



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The question of the contemporaneity of man with extinct species of 

 animals has again been brought before the Academy of Sciences by a 

 paper of M. J. Desnoyers, on the 8th ultimo, in which he announced his 

 having met with materials indicating the co-existence of man with the 

 Elephas meridionalis, in a deposit in the environs of Chartres, of greater 

 age than the drift of the valleys of the Somme and the Seine. These indi- 

 cations are kinds of notches or streaks made by the human hand, which he 

 has observed on many of the fossil bones of many of the great extinct 

 mammals found in that deposit at Saint-Prest,near Chartres. M. Desnoyers 

 also notices indications of the same character in bones from other localities. 

 The conclusions deduced in his paper are — that fossil bones of Elephas 

 meridionalis, Rhinoceros leptorhinus, R. JEtrnscus, Hippopotamus major, 

 many of large and small deer, and other species of mammifers charac- 

 teristic of the Upper Tertiary or Pliocene strata, discovered in an undis- 

 turbed deposit of that geological age, bear numerous and evident traces of 

 notchings, scratches, and cuts which are perfectly analogous to those which 

 have been observed on the fossil bones of other more recent species, some 

 of which, now extinct, accompanied the Elephas primigenius, Rhinoceros 

 tichorhinus, Ursus spelceus, Hycena spelcea, etc., and others still living, such 

 as the Reindeer and other deer, the Aurochs, etc., but remains of which 

 are found commingled together in ossiferous caverns, in drift-beds, or in 

 peat. Like vestiges have been met with on numbers of bones of existing 

 species in the excavations for houses, and in Celtic, Celto-Homan, and Saxon 

 graves. The marks noted on the fossil bones from the most ancient beds 

 appear to have had, for the most part, the same origin as those on the more 

 recent bones, and cannot be, so far as we yet know anything to the con- 

 trary, attributed to any other source than the act of man. Other striae, 

 finer, rectilinear, and inter-crossing, which are seen also in great number on 

 the bones from the Pliocene deposit of the neighbourhood of Chartres and 

 from other localities, are analogous to those seen on striated and rolled 

 boulders of ancient and modern glaciers. The section at Saint-Prest, una- 

 nimously recognized as Upper Tertiary, or Pliocene, and anterior to all the 



