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of numerous specimens, more or less perfect, received from three different 
localities, besides several details before unknown. 
The most numerous come from the beds of the White Mounta^'ns, near 
Prague, and are now partly in the collection of Herr Yon Sacher ; partly in 
the collection of Herr J. Barrande (figs. 5, 6, 0) ; partly in the Mineral Cabinet 
of the Imperial Uuiversitv (fig, 1),) and partly in the Bohemian Museum (figs. 
-10). The specimens sketched in pi. xxxviii, from the beds of Strehlen in 
^:^xony, were kindly lent me by Dr. Geinitz. The original of fig. 7, from the 
beds of Hundorf, near Teplitz, belong to the collection of Prince Lobkowitz in 
Bilin, from which, through the kindness of Herr Bubesch, I have repeatedly 
had it for examination. 
On the Occurrence of Huxan Bemains in Strata Contemporaijeous 
WITH Extinct Animals. — When Cuvier, in the year 1824, was asked whether 
human remains had ever been discovered unquestionably of the same age as 
extinct animals, the cautious and philosophical character of the inductive mind 
of the great founder of palaeontology was illuetrated by his reply. He said 
"Not yet." 
The object of the present communication is simply, by offering a brief sketch 
of the most remote examples of human remains in geological time, to place 
your general reader in a position to appreciate more correctly the recent gene- 
rahzations of various naturalists as to the origin and genesis of the human 
race. 
I shall avoid all the instances of the occurrence of the evidences of human 
art in ancient deposits, as the subject of the " celts" of Abbeville has been 
already satisfactorily treated by Mr. Mackie in this magazine, and as an able 
writer in the " Westminster Be view" for October, 1860, has summarilized aU 
the evidences of the contemporanity of man with the extinct elks, &c. I shall 
confine myself to the evidences of human bones in the j)rehistorical age of the 
world. I shall, however, treat wdth the greatest possible brevity those weU- 
kiiown instances which have been before the eyes of the public for many years, 
au(i lay most stress upon those newly-discovered facts which have recently 
attracted so much attention, even in general circles. 
Many years ago, at Kostritz, in Upper Saxony, human bones were disco- 
vered in an undisturbed stratum eight feet below the remains of hyaena and 
rhinoceros. These specimens have been in the British Museum for many years, 
and consist of the parietal bone and part of the femur. 
In America, Dr. Usher, of Mobile, has pleaded hard for the existence of a 
^lississippi backwoodsman fifty-seven thousand six hundred years a^o, and we 
confess we can detect no flaw in his reasoning, however we may distrust his 
conclusions. 
Dr. Dickeson, of Natchez, produces' a human pelvis from the same geological 
age ; but Sir Charles Lyell, with characteristic sagacity, doubts its legitimate 
association with the strata i/i situ at the foot of the cliffs. 
Dr. Schmerling, whose magnificent Ossements Fossiles des Environs de Liege 
have thrown such light upon extinct carnivora, brings various instances of tne 
occurrence of man's bones ^vith extinct bears and elephants. 
Dr. Lund, whose valuable palceontological researches are unfortunately inac- 
cessible to many, on account of their being written in the Danish language, 
discovered human remains coupled ^ith those of forty-four extinct animals at 
Minas Greraes, Brazil ; and at a cave on the borders of Lake Lagsa Santa, he 
found bones of thirty different human individuals, together with the large 
extinct monkey, Callithrix prirncBvus. 
I shall pass over, completely, without comment, the Guadaloupe skeleton in 
the British Museum, as it certainly is not more than two hundred years old. 
The earliest Celtic and Germanic skulls all unite in exhibiting a prominent 
