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4. Axes " de la forme Lien connue, revclee par Boucher de 

 " Perthes, mais plus petite." 



5. Nuclei, "rappelaut les fameux pains de beurre de Pres- 

 " signy. L'un d'eux, trouve a la Pianosa, ilot voisin de 1' ile d' Elbe, 

 " est en belle obsidienne noire, portant sur tout son contour la trace 

 " de longs eclats longitudinaux. II a ete divise en deux : les bases 

 " en sont polies, et de surface un pen gauche. La forme est con- 

 " ique." 



6. Objects of indeterminate form. 



"We do not perceive in the letter of M. Simonin any sufficient reason 

 for referring these objects to the age of stone. Arrow-heads of 

 stone were used throughout the age of bronze, and in the whole 

 of Great Britain up to the present time, so far as we are aware, not 

 a single bronze arrow head has been discovered. Scrapers also were 

 used in the age of bronze. 



Although M. Simonin does not describe the nuclei at length, 

 still it is evident that they diifer in one very remarkable respect 

 from the " livres de beurre " of Pressiguy. He says that they are 

 in part polished, which is never the case in the " livres de beurre." 



If the axes belong to the type which is characteristic of the 

 drift gravels, the fact is no doubt extremely interestiug. The 

 objects belonging to the age of bronze are axes, " des formes les plus 

 '' anciennes, puis une faucille ;" also some objects of undetermined use 

 and some moulds. We hope that we shall receive some more infor- 

 mation with reference to these observations of M. Foresi. 



At the sitting on the 21st of August, M. Milne-Edwards com- 

 municated to the Academy the following letter from M. Lartet, 

 relating to a plate of fossil ivory found in an ossiferous bed at 

 Perigord, and bearing marks which apparently are intended as the 

 representation of a long-haired elephant. 



" Since you think it may be useful to make public the palaBontolo- 

 gical specimen which has been shown to you, and on which may be 

 recognized contours and linear details of an animal form, referable to 

 an elephant, I send you a model of it executed by M. Stahl, the 

 clever artist attached to the Museum of Natural History. Besides 

 which, the original, after my return to Paris, will be at the disposal 

 of any one who shall wish to make a more complete examination of it. 



" The history of this specimen, which was discovered more than fif- 

 teen months ago is as follows: — In May, ISGI-, M. de Yerneuil and our 

 late friend Dr. Falconer, having expressed to me a desire to visit the 



