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Zeitschrift für Ethnologic.—The second number of this journal (or 1872 scarcely possesses the same scientific value as former numbers. We have, first, the concluding part of Dr. E. von Martens' lecture, read before the Anthropological Society of Berlin, December 1871, on the different uses of the Couchylia. The paper is characterised by true Germanic exhaustiveness, but it indicates a want of appreciation on the part of the author of the relative value of authorities, ambiguous allusions in Longfellow's “Hiawatha” being adduced as evidence, side by side with the statements of scientific travellers. Dr. Martens passes in review every use to which shells have been put in ancient or modern times, and in civilised or uncivilised countries.—Dr. Robert Hartmann continues his notice of the remains found in the Lake Dwellings of Switzerland, and draws attention to the absence of the domestic cit from the more ancient fauna of Europe. The most numerous animal remains belong to the common European stag (Cervus elephas), but are of colossal size, and so nearly akin to Cervus Canadensis as to raise the question whether the C. elephas of the Swiss Lake deposits may not be identical with C. canadensis. No trace of reindeer has been discovered, although that animal was common in Switzerland during the glacial period.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 7, 473–474 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007473a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/007473a0