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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. No information consequently 
exists of the appearance of the bones, as denoting the race to which 
they might possibly appertain. 
Meicslade {Glamorcjanshire). — Fig. 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 not improbably of the same period as the 
Fig. 5. — Human skull from Mcwslade (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 type 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 Eugis cranium. 
Sennen {Cormcall). — Fig. 6. — In this cranium, which was dis- 
covered in a subterranean peat bog or forest, thirty feet below the 
