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THE GEOLOGIST. 
The contrast between the braehycephalic skull marked O, and the 
dolichocephalic one marked +, from the same locality, is signifi- 
cant. 
Switzerland. — Mr. Lubbock, in his memoir on the subject, has told 
us "Human bones occur in the Pileworks {Pfaldhauten) but very 
seldom, and may no doubt be referred to accidents, especially as we 
find that those of children are most numerous. One mature skull 
was, however, discovered at Meilen, and has been described by Pro- 
fessor His, who considers that it does not difier much from the ordi- 
nary Swiss type.* And while his work was in the press, M. Eiiti- 
meyer received from M. Scliwab four more skulls, two of which were 
obtained at iS'idau Steinberg, one at Sutz, and one from Biel." INIr. 
Lubbock proceeds to say : " AYhether the Drift race of men were 
really the aboriginal inhalDitants of Europe, still remains to be ascer- 
tained. M. Eiitnneyer hints that our geographical distribution indi- 
cates a still greater antiquity of the human race." JS'o general 
statement of facts is, however, adduced in support of M. Eiitimeyer's 
theory, which the negative evidence, which proves that human bones 
are as capable of preservation as those of mammalia, tends to refute 
until observation and demonstration shall establish the greater anti- 
quity of man. 
A human cranium belonging to the first age of iron, from Tiefenau, 
exhibited exactly the same profile as the cranium from Sanderum- 
gaard. M. Morlot states that the height of the Swiss cranium is 
identically the same, and the length is a little (5 millimetres) longer 
than that of the Danish cranium. (Morlot, ' Etudes Geologico-Ar- 
cheologiques,' p. 317.) 
Objects of human art have been found at various depths in a 
tumulus near the Tiniere rivulet, which flows into the Lake of Greneva 
near Yilleneuve. In order that my readers may understand more 
clearly M. Morlot's reasoning, I transcribe his diagram and refer- 
ences. 
A.CTUAL Section of the " Cone de Dejection torrentielle de la Tiniere." 
From A. Morlot, ' Le9on d'ouverture d'lm Corn's sur la haute Antiquite, fait a I'Academie 
de Lausanne en Novenibre et Decembre I860.' 8vo. Lausanne, 186L 
R. Bed of the Roman age. 
B. Bed of the Bronze age, date 3000 to 4000 years ago. 
S, Bed of the Stone age, date 5000 to 7000 years, in which were found, at a, a piece of 
pottery ; at ^, a human skeleton, which a])peared to have been laid in a tomb, and 
of which the very small, round, and remarkably thick head presented the Mon- 
golian or Turanian "braehycephalic" type, strongly marked ; at d, mauy frag- 
* Dolichocephalic ? 
