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contains a bed of porous and pebbly silt, varying in tliickness from two to 
three feet, under which lies a layer of stalagmite less than two inches thick, 
and it was while examining the 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 worn, 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 Eemaixs. — JSTumerous 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- 
phas antiquus (?), from the gravel at Barrow-on-Soar, found in 1858 ; E.pri- 
migenius, 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 : — Elephas primigeiiius (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- 
ford.' T. R. J. 
FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE. 
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 part treats successively of the quadrumana, 
carnivora, rodentata, pach3^dermata, ruminantia, cdentata, 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 was 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 French 
Academy a map of the portions of Savoy, Piedmont, and Switzerland, in 
the vicinity of Mont Blanc, by M. Alphonse Favre, Professor at the 
Academy of Geneva. 
