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THE second meeting of the French Associaton for the Advancement of Science was held at Lyons from the 21st to the 28th of August, under the Presidency of Prof. Quatrefages. This Association bids fair to become as popular in France as the British Association in this country. The work done in the sections which I visited, those of Anthropology and Geology, was, to say the very least, as valuable as that done by our own sections. Among the papers brought before the former, the ploistocene station of Solutré excited considerable interest, and was subsequenlly visited by the section. The site has been used by man for habitation and burial, as late as the Merovingian times, in which it was a cemetery, and the strata are to a considerable extent, remanié The association of remains on that spot of varying age, Palæolithic, Neolithic, and Frankish, seems to throw a doubt on the precise date of the human skeletons, buried at full length, and generally believed to be of the same age as the associated implements of reindeer, and bones of mammoth. Dr. Gosse also read a paper on the reindeer-cave of Veyriers, Switzerland, and exhibited carved implements of reindeer antler, usually called “batons de commandement,” which are of the same form as the arrow-straighteners of the Eskimos. Here, as in the caves of Belgium explored by M. Dupont, they presented but one perforation. The debates were very animated, and drew out many valuable remarks from the eminent anthropologist, Dr. Paul Broca.
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D., W. French Association for the Advancement of Science . Nature 8, 468 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008468a0
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