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bable relation of these various clianges to any known epochs of geological 
action." This statement made by Baden Powell, although apparently 
borne out by the geological evidence, was impugned by A. Thomson, Esq., 
of Banchory, in the ' Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal,' vol. iii. 1856, 
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 (!) toell developed,'' according to the observations made by Mr. Cooksey, 
surgeon, of Chipping Campdeu. 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 peri- 
phery, 20y% in. 
It would be very interesting to have further evidence respecting this 
discovery ; and it is to be hoped that the skull may be placed in the hands 
of some practical ethnologist or cranioscopist. If it should offer any 
points of similarity to the " river-bed " skulls, another hnk in the chain of 
evidence would be procured. 
EEVIEW. 
Esquisse d'une Description Physique et Geologique de V Arrondissement 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 publisher 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 
jpreparateur 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 arrondissement — 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 with a map 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 epitomize these very briefly for the sake of comparison with our English 
