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been carefully examined, an extraordinary abundance of worm-bur- 

 rows, to the exclusion almost of all other forms. I expect, however, 

 to hear of Oldhamia and Palcsopyge next, for Dr. Fritsch is not the 

 man to leave a stone unturned. It is altogether a most welcome 

 piece of information. 



Now the summer months are fairly in, and the holidays beginning, 

 may I put in a plea for the Cambrian rocks of the Longmynd ? The 

 more hammers the better ; and if every piece of rock on the top of 

 Round Hill, just beyond Callow Hill, were examined for the Palceo- 

 pyge, it would be worth while ; or better still, the neighbouring 

 gullies on the line of strike. The old marks of hammers will easily 

 guide explorers ; and the establishment or refutation of the existence 

 of this, the oldest of all crustaceans, would be alike desirable. 



J. W. Salter. 



HUMAN REMAINS IN THE DRIFT OF THE VALE OF 

 BELVOIR. 



Dear Sir, — In accordance with my promise, I send you all the 

 particulars I can glean relative to the human skull said to have been 

 found in the valley of the Trent, near Newark, many feet down in 

 the drift, and mingled with bones of extinct mammals. Of the vast 

 importance of such a discovery I was fully aware, therefore imme- 

 diately my friend W. Ingram, Esq., of Belvoir Castle, laid the cir- 

 cumstances before me, I, perhaps somewhat too hastily, sent off an 

 account thereof for your magazine. Of that, however, your readers 

 must judge. I knew that M. Boucher de Perthes has, in the editions 

 of his descriptive w T orks on the " Flint Implements," repeatedly said, 

 in answer to the taunting question of his theoretical opponents, 

 " How is it you never find the bones of man with these flints and 

 bones ?" — " Wait ! They must be present somewhere. Wait and 

 they will yet be found." During the last few years numerous results 

 have issued. Mr. Horner's researches in the valley of the Nile suffi- 

 ciently prove the great age of man, and the large extension required 

 beyond the six thousand years of Archbishop Usher. If the story 

 of the flint-implements be true, the history of man upon the earth 

 must date back to a period immensely remote. Moreover, the length 

 of time indicated by the heiroglyphics of Egypt and the calculations 

 of the Chinese is by these discoveries verified. After years of pooh- 

 poohing, facts have transpired in quick succession, establishing what 

 before was for the most part theory founded upon inferences ; and 

 now, upon the same old inferences, theories are drawn out and built 

 up in a new way to prove the lowness in the scale of intellect of the 

 makers of the flint-implements ; in other words, that that race of 

 men was in the scale of being the step between the gorilla and the 



