The Sun. — 1847-01-22 (London, England)

FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN.—It has been generally alleged by geologists that no fossils of the human species have ever been found among the remains of other animals so frequently turned up in their researches. But a Dr. Dickeson, of Philadelphia, has discovered a bone in the vicinity of Natches, which the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences pronounced to have been the bone of a man. Natchez is a region which is said to abound with the relics of an antediluvian era. It was found with other organic remains in a stratum of tenacious blue clay that underlies the diluvial drift east of Natchez, and in this diluvial drift the bones of toe Megalonyx were discovered. In the record of the meeting of the Philadelphia Academy, October 6th ultimo. the United Slates Gazette find the following :—" Dr. Dickeson presented another relic of yet greater interest, viz : the fossil os innominatum of the human subject, taken from the above-mentioned stratum of blue clay, and about two feet below the skeletons of the Megaton) x and other extinct genera of quadrupeds. This ancient relic of our species is that of a young man about 16 years of age, as determined by its size and form, and by the fact that the eeihyses have separated from the tuberosity of the ischium, and front the crista of ilium. Nearly all tth4! os pubis is wanting; the upper posterior part of thuse.ill 11 broken away, and but half the acetabulum wept,' this bone is strictly in the fossil state is minanelt3:rtyl^r°e7pe'vt physical characters, in could not have drifted of colour, density, &c. and other 9.,sociAtcd bones. plateau as found is manifest from o f the ‘&viriceenwiitthtl atilc,,°.4re of the 111egalonyx isle) ,t_oe rat ll ef. pc toss! t i arlsit-htihcble I. ; mbent diluvial. 2. That the human nloecaust two feet below three associated those causes that produce bone was ra‘ines appreciablyi n tf found ansedut pe acted rt p ;e n andd n t lastly, skeletons of the Megalubyx, all which, judging from the opposidon of proximity of their several pars, had been quietly d , reeraosoi tredo ert bidsispul,accaitit)tgy, p ion\ \dee ry o f an becaacutsievetchurere was no admixture of diluvial drift with the blue clay, which latter retains its homogeneous clearac et equally in the higher part, that furnished the extinct quadrupeds, and in its lower part, that contained the remains announced his intention of returning, man. Dr. Dlickes.ondhasof the present autumn, to resume his explorations atloratentrin period sloprolitic and most interesting locality ; and pit is earnestly hoped that his researches may lead to a further elucidation of this important question in science."—New York Evening Post. CHILD MtatDER.--Wednesday Mr. Mills held an inquest, at the C Leieea workhouse on the body of a newlyborn infant, which had been found on the 12th inst. in a drain connected with a water closet belonging to the neighbouring cemetery, but to which there was generally public access. No clue had been discovered as to the parents or other parties to whom the child had belonged. Mr. Warner, the surgeon, who had opened the body, said it had been born alive and without medical aid. He had found a piece of twisted cloth tied very tightly round the neck, and from the appearances of the brain he was satisfied that the child had died from wilful strangulation. The jury, without hesitation, returned this verdict, " That deceased had been found exposed, (lead, and wilfully murdered by some person or persons unknown."