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burials, while the accompanying objects may he either of bronze or of stone, 
or of both materials. Our author has carefully analysed the results which 
were obtained by Bateman in his ten years’ diggings, and has failed to 
detect any rule of association. The men of the neolithic and of the bronze 
age appear to have had the same customs, whatever ethnic differences may 
have distinguished them. We need hardly say that this conclusion runs 
counter to the opinion of most archaeologists, such as Sir John Lubbock, 
who believe that, as a rule, cremation was practised in the bronze age, and 
that in neolithic times the body was buried in a contracted posture. 
Cave-hunting forms an interesting part of Mr. Pennington’s hook. It 
was he who first called attention to the fissures in the Windy Knoll Quarry, 
which have yielded so rich an assemblage of pleistocene remains. From 
these fossils it is clear that herds of bison and reindeer must have roamed 
over the hills of Derbyshire in the pleistocene period, perhaps towards its 
close; or, as our author suggests with some vagueness, in “the late geological 
time.” Professor Boyd Dawkins has studied this fauna, as also that from 
the Creswell Caves, which have been so carefully explored by the Bev. 
Magens Mello.* The Creswell fauna included the mammoth, the woolly 
rhinoceros, the cave hyaena, and the terrible sabre-toothed machairodus. 
With this assemblage of extinct animals, man must have lived — man in a 
state unquestionably savage, yet with some dawning desire for art. In fact, 
one of the most interesting relics of prehistoric man which have been found 
in any part of the country is a piece of bone from Robin Hood Cave, incised 
with the well-defined outline of the horse of the period. 
So much indifference is often displayed by the inhabitants of a district 
to their local antiquities, that all enthusiastic exploration of this kind de- 
serves encouragement. We only regret that Mr. Pennington did not see 
his way to illustrating his descriptions by a few engravings. 
THE RECORD OF GEOLOGICAL LITERATURE. t 
I N the early part of last year we noticed the appearance of the first “ Geo- 
logical Record,” containing an account of the literature of geology and 
the affiliated sciences published in the year 1874. The second “ Record,” 
giving the analysis of the geological publications for 1875, is only just pub- 
lished, its appearance having been delayed in part by the occurrence of a 
fire at the printers’, which, without absolutely destroying any portion of the 
work, threw obstacles in the way of its completion. 
In our former notice we stated that this series of annual volumes, if 
carried out, would prove a most valuable aid to the geologist, and the ap- 
pearance of the second issue only serves to confirm and widen this opinion. 
In the new volume several improvements are introduoed — some in the typo- 
graphical execution of the work, to render it more easy to consult ; one in the 
general arrangement, namely, the introduction of a heading “ Oceania ” for 
* See an Article by Mr. Mello in our present number, 
t “ The Geological Record for 1875 : an Account of Works on Geology, 
Mineralogy, and Palaeontology, published during the year.” Edited by 
William Whitaker, B.A., F.G.S. 8vo. London : Taylor & ^rancis. 1877. 
