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of numerous specimens, more or less perfect, received from three different 

 localities, besides several details before unknown. 



The most numerous come from the beds of the White Mountains, near 

 Prague, and are now partly in the collection of Herr Yon Sacher ; partly in 

 the collection of Herr J. Barrande (figs. 5, 6, 0) ; partly in the Mineral Cabinet 

 of the Imperial University (fig. 1),) and partly in the Bohemian Museum (figs. 

 2—10). The specimens sketched in pi. xxxviii, from the beds of Strehlen in 

 Saxony, were kindly lent me by Dr. Geinitz. The original of fig. 7, from the 

 beds of Hundorf, near Teplitz, belong to the collection of Prince Lobkowitz in 

 Bilin, from which, through the kindness of Herr Rubesch, I have repeatedly 

 had it for examination. 



On the Occurrence op Human Remains in Strata Contemporaneous 

 with Extinct Animals. — When Cuvier, in the year 1824, was asked whether 

 human remains had ever been discovered unquestionably of the same age as 

 extinct animals, the cautious and philosophical character of the inductive mind 

 of the great founder of palaeontology was illustrated by his reply. He said 

 "Not yet." 



The object of the present communication is simply, by offering a brief sketch 

 of the most remote examples of human remains in geological time, to place 

 your general reader in a position to appreciate more correctly the recent gene- 

 ralizations of various naturalists as to the origin and genesis of the human 

 race. 



I shall avoid all the instances of the occurrence of the evidences of human 

 art in ancient deposits, as the subject of the "celts" of Abbeville has been 

 already satisfactorily treated by Mr. Mackie in this magazine, and as an able 

 writer in the " Westminster Review" for October, 1860, has summarilized all 

 the evidences of the contemporanity of man with the extinct elks, &c. I shall 

 confine myself to the evidences of human bones in the prehistorical age of the 

 world. I shall, however, treat with the greatest possible brevity those well- 

 known instances which have been before the eyes of the public for many years, 

 and lay most stress upon those newly-discovered facts which have recently 

 attracted so much attention, even in general circles. 



Many years ago, at Kostritz, in Upper Saxony, human bones were disco- 

 vered in an undisturbed stratum eight feet below the remains of hyaena and 

 rhinoceros. These specimens have been in the British Museum for many years, 

 and consist of the parietal bone and part of the femur. 



In America, Dr. Usher, of Mobile, has pleaded hard for the existence of a 

 Mississippi backwoodsman fifty-seven thousand six hundred years ago, and we 

 confess we can detect no flaw in his reasoning, however we may distrust his 

 conclusions. 



Dr. Dickeson, of Natchez, produces a human pelvis from the same geological 

 age ; but Sir Charles Lyell, with characteristic sagacity, doubts its legitimate 

 association with the strata in situ at the foot of the cliffs. 



Dr. Schmerling, whose magnificent Ossements Fossiles des Environs de Liege 

 have thrown such light upon extinct carnivora, brings various instances of the 

 occurrence of man's bones with extinct bears and elephants. 



Dr. Lund, whose valuable paloeontological researches are unfortunately inac- 

 cessible to many, on account of their being written in the Danish language, 

 discovered human remains coupled with those of forty-four extinct animals at 

 Minas Geraes, Brazil ; and at a cave on the borders of Lake Lagsa Santa, he 

 found bones of thirty different human individuals, together with the large 

 extinct monkey, Callithrix primtevus. 



I shall pass over, completely, without comment, the Guadaloupe skeleton in 

 the British Museum, as it certainly is not more than two hundred years old. 



The earliest Celtic and Germanic skulls all unite in exhibiting a prominent 



