182 Till' Alini'Killl (rroloi/t.st. Septfinlier, IS'.U 
account of some dofect uftcr ;i ttakc or two luul been struck otl', 
and 300 scrapers of various sizes and t3'pes. 
Tnii)lements etc.. of ivory were more numerous in this layer 
tluin in any other known cave in Belgium. Chips were so abun- 
dant as to form a l)reccia in one place. The objects found were 
for the most part for dress or ornament, and the material had often 
degenerated into a chalky substance. Manj- of them were un- 
finished or the diflferent stages of manufacture were revealed. 
Some of them were marked with striation as was also the case 
with the implements of horn and of bone found with the ivory. 
On a rib of the mammoth or rhinoceros was found a series of 
■• circumtlex accents " ranged one above another, of which a figure 
is given in the pamphlet. One hollow horn was filled and stained 
with iron oxide, and is supposed l)y M. Lohest to have l)een a 
receptacle of this material for coloring the persons or the imple- 
ments of the cave men. These with four fragments of pottery, 
found liy another investigator, complete the list of relics from the 
second ossiferous layer. 
The third contains a fauna so far as it goes, identical with that 
of the second l»ed. 
Khinoceros tichorhinus, abundant. 
Equus caballus, very abundant. 
Cerviis elephus, rare. 
Cervus tarandus, very rare. 
Bos primigenius, common. 
Elephus primigenius, coniiiion. 
Ursus spela'iis, rare. 
Meles taxus, rare. 
Hyena spelita, abundant. 
In this lied, however, were found as in the other, abundance of 
flint implements, but somewhat differing in form and material 
from those al)Ove mentioned. The great interest of this layer, and 
indeed of the whole find is the discover^' not only of the works 
of man. but of man himself, in the form of two partial skeletons, 
one skull of which is nearly perfect. This of course forms the 
central point of >I. Lohests paper, and he justh' goes into detail 
concerning it. We will condense his account written liy Dr. 
Fraipont. 
"The human relics belong to the most ancient fossil race, that of 
Neanderthal or of Canstadt. The skulls, fairly complete, present all the 
ethnic characters of that race, whose remains are known from France, 
