Abstract
MUCH interest has been aroused by reports in the Times and other newspapers of the discovery of mummified animals in the Koster caves, 100 miles west of Johannesburg, South Africa. These caves are situated in a district in which numerous stone implements and other evidence of early human occupation have been found. They have therefore been carefully examined by Mr. Harold S. Harger, a well-known geologist, whose report is disappointing. It appears that the mummified remains occur in a thick layer of bat guano on the floor of the main cave, and represent only modern animals. It is not unusual to find such remains in the circumstances described, and there is one known case in Patagonia in which the skin and soft parts even of an extinct animal (a ground sloth) have been preserved. There is no doubt that the caves and surface deposits in the Koster district of South Africa are well worthy of the attention of the local geologists and anthropologists, but they have not hitherto afforded anything of special note.
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