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THE GEOLOGIST. 
lites CO,, or more probably fossil fruit ; also a very rude earthenware 
vessel, in size about a pint and half, and a human skull, Avhich Dr. 
Beevor pronounces io be that of a female. What is very lemarkable, 
he says the organs of caution and firmness were very largely deve- 
loped, and the forehead was lofty, evidently betokening a high degree 
of intellectual power. Now this is the most important thing in the 
whole matter, because it clashes so discordantly with the theor}^ that 
man of the flint-implement period of the " drift" was so low in the 
scale as necessarily to come in between the gorilla and the negro. 
Alas ! for the theory, if this, the only human bone yet found, so flatly 
contradicts it.* We can still exclaim with Burns, that 
" A man's a man for a' that." 
And furthermore, let the grand saying of Terence'-^^ir.g in our ears: 
" Homo sum, niliil humanum a me alienum puto !" 
And it will come out, I believe, clearer and clearer that through nC 
" natural selection" in the " struggle for existence," can man by any. 
means be a splendid development of some anterior existence refer-] 
able back to the monad, thence to the combination of certain ele- 
ments, and so on backwards ad infinitum. 
Francis Drake. 
FOSSIL DEER'S HORN AT CLACTON, SHOWING MARK! 
OF HUMAN OPERATIONS. 
By Rev. O. Fisher, F.G.S., of Elmstead, Colchester. 
Dr. Bree, the well-known naturalist and author of " Species not 
Transmutable," has kindly entrusted to my care a very interesting 
specimen, bearing with much force upon the question of the anti- 
quity of the human race. It is the base of an antler of the red- deer, 
showing unmistakeable evidences of human operations upon it The 
specimen was dredged up about two months ago off' Clacton, in Essex, 
in the course of dredging for cement-stones. Dr. Bree has a por- 
tion of the tusk of a mastodon (?) and some fish-bones and teeth, 
apparently derived from the red crag, from the same source. Tb 
spot is two miles from the shore, and is called " The Wallet." 
The horn in question was not shed, but has a portion of the bone 
of the skull adhering to it. It has been choiyped away from the skull, 
showing a clear mark or cut on each side. But this is the least 
remarkable feature. The most interesting point is that the three 
branches of the horn have been sawn off" with perfectly clean cuts per- 
pendicularly to their axes, the polished surfaces of the sections bein 
