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bable relation of tlicse various eliangos to any known epochs of ^^oolof^ncal 

 a(^Lion." Tliis statement made by Baden Powell, altliou<^h ai)))ai;'ii11y 

 borne out by the ^eolot^ical evidence, was impugned by A. Tiiomson, 

 of Banchory, in the ' Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal,' vol. iii. 1850, 

 p. 247. No satisfactory account of the skeleton has however been given. 

 "The skull was small, but beautifully formed, having the organ of venera- 

 tion (!) 'Well developed" according to the observations made by Mr. Cooksey, 

 surgeon, of Chipping Cam])den. The following measurements are given: — • 

 From posterior edge of foramen magnum to nasal bones, 15y\in.; from one 

 meatus auditorius to the other, over the crown, 13 in. ; horizontal pcri- 

 l)]iery, 20/;;- in. 



It would be very interesting to have further evidence respeciing iliis 

 discovery ; and it is to be hoped tliat the skull may be placed in t]ic IhhmIs 

 of some practical ethnologist or cranioscopist. If it should oiler any 

 points of similarity to the " river-bed" skulls, another link in the chain of 

 evidence would be procured. 



EEYIEW. 



JEsquisse d'une Description Physique et Geologique de V Arrondisse7nent de 

 Montheliard. Par Dr. Ch. Contejean. Leipzig : Rothschild, 1862. 



The physical and geological description of a district, although it may not 

 have for general readers so great an interest as works of a more extended 

 and diversified kind, forms nevertheless one of the many solid blocks of 

 which the noble building of geological science is constituted. It is with 

 the greatest pleasure we see these important repertories of valuable details 

 multiplied day by day. Usually they are the work of some devoted indi- 

 vidual who has worked, con. amore, in the place of his birth, or of his daily 

 labours, and often they are printed at the expense of his private purse. 

 Often some pidjlisher is found to take up some of this class of books as a 

 business transaction, and such cases are gratifying, for it shows a great 

 and wide-spread, if nut indeed a public, interest in our science. 



The work before us was begun at the solicitation of the Society of Emu- 

 lation of Montbeliard, who desired to furnish their contingent to the 

 scientific description of France demanded of the French learned societies 

 by the Ministerial circular of the 1st of June, 1860. M. Contejean is the 

 preparateur of the Museum of Natural History, of Paris, and, at the dis- 

 tance of a hundred leagues away, it did not seem the easiest task to write 

 the geology of a district ; but he yielded to the wishes of his colleagues, 

 feeling that his many botanical and geological explorations of his native 

 soil, so fresh in his memory, would enable him to give a sketch of all the es- 

 sential details. The book thus produced is divided into four subjects : — I. 

 The physical description of the arrondisscment— its situation, its elevated 

 regions, mountains, rivers, lakes, marshes, and peat-bogs. II. A geolo- 

 gical description, comprising notices of the Triassic, Jurassic, Neocomian, 

 Cretaceous, Siderolithic, Molasse, Tertiary, and modern deposits. III. 

 The Orography of the district. IV. General considerations. It is illus- 

 trated AA'ith a jnap and two plates of very instructive sections. The divi- 

 sions and subdivisions of the various formations are given with concise- 

 ness, but every necessary detail. It may be useful to English geologists 

 to e])itomizc these very brielly for the sake of comparison with our English 



