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all the bones together, amounting to seventeen individuals, and caused 

 them to be reinterred in the parish burial-ground. Eight years after- 

 wards, " not even the sexton retained any recollection of the precise 

 spot at which these human remains had been deposited in a common 

 trench." future palaeontologists will rank Dr. Amiel, the mayor of 

 Aurignac, with the trustees of the Ashmolean Museum, who de- 

 stroyed the last specimen of the Dodo, in Oxford. His ignorance, or 

 superstition, has deprived Palaeontology of one of the most important 

 links of evidence" ever discovered. JSTo information consequently 

 exists of the appearance of the bones, as denoting the race to which 

 they might possibly appertain. 



3Ieivslade {Glamorganshire). — Eig. 5. — This cranium Professor 

 Busk describes as " probably that of a female, found together 

 with less perfect skulls and numerous other bones belonging to 

 six or seven individuals of different ages, from sixty or seventy down to 

 three or four years, in a narrow fissure in a limestone quarry at Mew- 

 slade in Glamorganshire, and wo^^ improhahly of the same period as the 



Fig. 5. — Hmnaii skull from Mewslade (scale \ linear). 



bones of animals, etc., found in the neighbouring caverns in Gower, 

 which have been described by Dr. Falconer and others. This cranium 

 IS obviously of a wholly distinct tvpe from that of the others, though 

 still in some respects peculiar." The frontal region is elevated, the 

 supraorbital ridge being only moderately prominent. The alisphenoid 

 and the parietal join. The 'skull belongs markedly to the dolicho- 

 cephalic type, and slightly reminds us of the Engis 'cranium. 



Senuen (Corn wall). ~Yig. 6.— In this cranium, which was dis- 

 covered ni a subterranean peat bog or forest, thirty feet below the 



