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Notes and Comments. 
so different that we may hesitate to refer the two skulls to* 
the same race. This hesitation seems to be justified when the 
associated limb-bones are considered, for the tibia is long and 
slender, of the typically modern type, and the extremities 
of the femur do not differ in any essential respect from the 
corresponding parts of a tall and robust modern man. They 
are thus very different from the tibia and femur of NeanderthaL 
man found in the caves of Belgium and France. As the skull 
appears to postulate an erect attitude, the congruous limb- 
bones may well be referred to it. We therefore recognise in 
the Rhodesian cave man a new form which may be regarded 
as specifically distinct from Homo neanderthalensis , and may 
be appropriately named Homo rhodesiensis. The precise 
systematic position of this new species of primitive man can 
be determined only by further discoveries. It has, however, 
been pointed out by Prof. Elliot Smith that the refinement of: 
the face was probably the last step in the evolution of the 
human frame. The newly discovered Rhodesian man may 
therefore revive the idea that Neanderthal man is truly art 
ancester of Homo sapiens ; for Homo rhodesiensis retains an. 
almost Neanderthal face in association with a more modem 
brain-case and up-to-date skeleton. He may prove to be 
the next grade after Neanderthal in the ascending series. 
AN OLD GEOLOGICAL ‘ SECTION.’ 
At a recent meeting of the Linnean Society of London, the 
President, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, remarked upon a repre- 
sentation of a section of Derbyshire from East to West, 
executed in samples of the respective rocks by Mr. White 
Watson, who was elected a Fellow in 1795, and whose death 
was reported at the Anniversary Meeting of 1837. He wa& * 
connected with the Post Office and the dispatch of the mails,, 
and in 1794 he prepared the representation above mentioned, 
issuing also a pamphlet descriptive of it. The British. 
Museum possesses the pamphlet, but not the tablet here shown, 
which measures 19" by 13". As the tablet is somewhat 
remote from the pursuits of the Linnean Society, the Council 
has suggested that it would be appropriate to transfer it to 
the Trustees of the British Museum. It was given to the- 
Society on the 24th May, 1810. This suggestion was adopted.. 
ROCKS AND FOSSILS.* 
This little book consists of a number of photographs with 
more or less appropriate descriptions ; but so far as the 
fossils are concerned the title should be ‘ How not to identify 
them ! ’ On page 31 is a photograph described as ‘ Flinty- 
Shell Remains of Foraminifera ’ ; they are not ‘ flinty shell 
* ‘ Rocks and Fossils, and how to Identify them,' by J. H. Crabtree. . 
The Ep worth Press, 63 pp., is. gd. net. 
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