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THE annual meeting of the international Palæontological Society, which, as already announced in NATURE, was held in Weimar on September 24 to 30, was attended by about sixty members. Germans naturally predominated, but Austria, England, Hungary, Russia, and Sweden were also represented Weimar is a delightful town in which to stay, but the historical interest of the best available meeting-room scarcely outweighed its unsuitability for a modern scientific conference, nor did the rainy weather conduce to the pleasure of the excursions. On the other hand, the immediate neighbourhood has, during the past few years, furnished the Weimar Museum für Urgeschichte with a remarkable series of Pleistocene remains, which have been studied and arranged mainly by Prof. W. Soergel and Gustos Moeller. These come from the travertine and gravel deposits of the llm valley. An excursion had been planned to the travertine quarries of Ehringsdorf, where in the lower beds is to be seen a culture layer of Mous-terian age. In clearing a fresh surface of this layer for inspection by the palæontologists, the unexpected discovery was made of a battered skull of Neanderthal type embedded among the charred fragments of wood and bone. The mode, of occurrence suggested that this might be a case of cannibalism. Another recent find, announced by Prof. Freudenberg, was of human bones from Mauer, possibly belonging to the original Homo heidelbergensis.
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Palæontologists at Weimar. Nature 116, 628–629 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116628a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116628a0