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From there he will easily find opportunity to inspect 

 the institutions and museums of other cities, and to visit 

 the numerous localities in France where the deposits of 

 prehistoric times are so especially abundant and cele- 

 brated. In vertebrate palaeontology many famous fossils 

 have been described from the Carboniferous and Lower 

 Permian rocks of Autun, the Jurassic and Cretaceous of 

 northern France, to the Eocene of Paris, Rheims, Aix, 

 Soissons, the famous Oligocene of Quercy, the Miocene of 

 theDept. Allier, St.-Gerand-le-Puy, Soissons, and elsewhere. 

 One need not add that the Paris Basin, of early Cenozoic 

 age, was first made famous by Cuvier. In Anthropology 

 no name is more eminent perhaps than that of BOUCHER 

 DE PERTHES, who first really demonstrated the existence 

 of fossil man. And the names of QUATREFAGES, LARTET, 

 SERRES, and TOPINARD, are but little less so. But at 

 this point we enter a field more fully described already 

 in the Chapter on ANTHROPOLOGY. 



