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contains a bed of porous and pebbly silt, varyinfr in thickness from two to 

 tliree feet, under wliicli lies a layer of stalagmite less than two inches tliick, 

 and it was while examining tlie soil beneath the stalagmite that the frag- 

 ments in question were found. They consist of portions of two lower jaw- 

 bones and three pieces of skull. In each jawbone the last three molars 

 remain, all but two of which are much w^orn, and one is decayed. The 

 pieces of skull are identified as fragments of the occipital and parietal bones ; 

 one of the latter is remarkably thick (eight millimetres). Pains were taken 

 at the time of the discovery to observe that in their colour, degree of de- 

 composition and position, the human bones were in no way to be distin- 

 guished from the other animal remains which were confusedly accumulated 

 under the stalagmite. 



Mammalian Kematns. — Numerous elephants' teeth were dug up some 

 years since at Fisherton Anger, near Salisbury. (Preface to Miss Benett's 

 'Catalogue of Wiltshire Fossils.') 



Fossil Mammalia. — In the Museum at Leicester, are : — Teeth of Ele- 

 jplias antiquus (P), from the gravel at Barrow-on-Soar, found in 1858 ; E.pri- 

 onigenius, from the gravel at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, found at 

 a depth of 13 feet ; ditto, from near Kegworth ; ditto, found at Leicester, 

 on the site of the Infirmary. 



Leighton Buzzard : — lUeplias primigenius (molar, tusk, and part of a 

 leg-bone), found in 1860, at Mr. Doggett's gravel-pit, at the end of Leake 

 Street, Leighton Buzzard. 



A molar of Elephas, found in gravel on the banks of the canal, not far 

 from Linslade Church, near Leighton Buzzard, is in the Museum at Ox- 

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The publication of the 'Animaux Fossiles et Geologic de I'Attique,' 

 after the researches made by M. Albert Gaudry in 1855-56 and 1860, has 

 been commenced. The first pnrt treats successively of the quadrumana, 

 carnivora, rodentata, pachyderm ata, ruminantia, edentata, aves, and rep- 

 tilia of which he has found the remains. The second part is devoted to 

 the geology of Attica. In the parts issued, the description of the Misopi- 

 thecus of Pentelicus, with hypothetical details of its aspect and habits, is 

 most interesting. This monkey w^as half a yard long from the head to the 

 extremity of the pelvis, and 30 centimetres in height. These are the di- 

 mensions of this little macacus ; its tail would have exceeded the length of 

 its body, and it is more likely that it scrambled along the rocks rather 

 than climbed trees ; and that it lived in troops. It masticated like man, 

 making the lower jaw glide inside the upper. At the period during which 

 it lived, the temperature of Attica would appear to have been higher than 

 at present. The work, edited by M. Savy, will extend to fifteen parts. 



During the past month. Count d'Archiac has presented to the Froncli 

 Academy a map of the portions of Savoy, Piedmont, and Switzerland, in 

 the vicinity of Mont Blauc, by M. Alphonse Favre, Professor at the 

 Academy of Geneva. 



