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been carefully examined, an extraordinary abundance of worm-bur- 
rows, to the exclusion almost of all other forms, I expect, however, 
to hear of Oldhamia and Paloeopijge next, for Dr. Fritsch is not the 
man to leave a stone unturned. It is altogether a most welcome 
piece of information. 
I^ow the summer months are fairly in, and the holidays beginning, 
may I put in a plea for the Cambrian rocks of the Longmynd ? The 
more hammers the better ; and if every piece of rock on the top of 
Round Hill, just beyond Callow Hill, were examined for the Palceo- 
pyge, it would be worth while ; or better still, the neighbouring 
gullies on the line of strike. The old marks of hammers will easily 
guide explorers ; and the establishment or refutation of the existence 
of this, the oldest of all crustaceans, would be alike desirable. 
J. W. Salter. 
HUMAN REMAINS IN THE DRIFT OF THE VALE OF 
BELVOIR. 
Dear Sir, — In accordance with my promise, I send you all the 
particulars I can glean relative to the human skull said to have been 
found in the valley of the Trent, near Newark, many feet down in 
the drift, and mingled with bones of extinct mammals. Of the vast 
importance of such a discovery I was fully aware, therefore imme- 
diately my friend W. Ingram, Esq., of Bel voir Castle, laid the cir- 
cumstances before me, I, perhaps somewhat too hastily, sent off an 
account thereof for your magazine. Of that, however, your readers 
must judge. I knew that M. Boucher de Perthes has, in the editions 
of his descriptive works on the " Flint Implements," repeatedly said, 
in answer to the taunting question of his theoretical opponents, 
" How is it you never find the bones of man with these flints and 
bones ?" — " Wait ! They must be present somewhere. Wait and 
they will yet be found." During the last few years numerous results 
have issued. Mr. Horner's researches in the valley of the Nile suffi- 
ciently prove the great age of man, and the large extension required 
beyond the six thousand years of Archbishop Usher. If the story 
of the flint-implements be true, the history of man upon the earth 
must date back to a period immensely remote. Moreover, the length 
of time indicated by the heiroglyphics of Egypt and the calculations 
of the Chinese is by these discoveries verified. After years of pooh- 
poohing, facts have transpired in quick succession, establishing what 
before was for the most part theory founded upon inferences ; and 
now, upon the same old inferences, theories are drawn out and built 
up in a new way to prove the lowness in the scale of intellect of the 
makers of the flint- implements ; in other words, that that race of 
men was in the scale of being the step between the gorilla and the 
