PORTRAIT OF THE RATEL. 



THE reader will be pleased to know that Mr. 

 Austen's knowledge of natural history, and talent 

 as an artist, were of use to the savants engaged in the 

 elucidation of the history of the ancient people who 

 lived in caves, of whose habits and mode of life we 

 know so little. 



By the kindness of Professor Rupert Jones, 

 F.R.S., F.G.S., &c., Editor of Reliquiae Aquita- 

 nicce, I am enabled to reproduce an extract from 

 Part XV. of that work, published September, 1874. 

 This was illustrated by Mr. Austen. I am indebted 

 to Professor Jones for the loan of the wood block. 



"On an engraved figure of a glutton, from one of 

 the Dordogne caves, by Professor Rupert Jones, 

 F.R.S., &c., Fig. 80, is an outline of the glutton, 

 cut on a piece of antler from one of the caves in 

 the Department of the Dordogne, and is engraved 

 from the photograph of a specimen believed by the 



