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Nationale Superieure des Mines also, there is a valuable 

 and noted collection in palaeontology. The Universities 

 of Caen, Grenoble, and Lille, also have special collections 

 in palaeontology. 



One of the few periodicals anywhere devoted to palaeon- 

 tology is the Annales de Paleontologie, published for the 

 past ten years at Paris under the direction of BOULE. 



Palaeontology cannot be pursued as an isolated science. 

 Fossils are merely animals and plants that have been 

 dead longer than others, as Huxley once said, and must 

 be studied in connection with living organisms and with 

 geology. The student should therefore seek those uni- 

 versities where geology, and especially historical geology, 

 is given much attention, and where also botany and 

 zoology in all their branches are well represented. Per- 

 haps there is no university in France, and few if any in 

 all Europe, where all these requirements are better met 

 than in Paris. Of the eighteen chairs in the Natural 

 Sciences at the Museum of Natural History, one is as- 

 signed to Palaeontology; its present incumbent is BOULE, 

 well known for his work in anthropology and palaeontology, 

 more especially vertebrate palaeontology. In the Uni- 

 versity, under the Faculty of Sciences, a course in palaeon- 

 tology is given by THEVENIN, author of notable works in 

 both invertebrate and vertebrate palaeontology, but 

 especially the latter. 



There are other universities in France where palaeon- 

 tology is taught as a distinct science, and where the 

 student may find better conditions for special studies; 

 in the final work it is often the teacher who counts more 

 than anything else. Courses in palaeontology are given 

 at Caen by BIGOT, at Grenoble by KILIAN, and at Lille 

 by BERTRAND. But there is no place, we believe, where 

 he will find greater encouragement in his early studies 

 than Paris. 



