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results of their search in some of the Caves not excavated or not fully examined 

 by MM. Christy and Lartet ; they have enriched their museums with numerous 

 and often choice relics of the Cave-folk, and have published thoughtful and philo- 

 sophic memoirs on the conditions and habits of that early people. The Bones, 

 also, of Birds and Fishes found in the Caves have been carefully treated of by 

 Dr. A. MILNE-EDWARDS and Dr. SAUVAGE, in the ' RELIQUIAE AQTJITANIC^: ' and 

 elsewhere. But the Mammalian Eemains are still undescribed ; for M. Lartet's 

 notes were left in too fragmentary and unfinished a state to yield a continuous 

 memoir, and no other palaeontologist as yet has turned his attention to the 

 subject. 



M. LARTET'S catalogue of these Mammals, however, his note on the Ovibos 

 (reprinted), and numerous remarks by him on other members of the Cave 

 Fauna, are to be found in the ' RELIQUI^; AQUITANIC.E.' 



The Caves which were actually examined are treated of by both E. LARTET 

 and H. CHRISTY, in this Book ; and more fully by Mr. JOHN EVANS. M. Louis 

 LARTET has given a detailed description of Cro-Magnon; and Dr. HAMY has 

 noticed some points in the Rock-shelter of Laugerie Basse. A full account of the 

 geological surroundings of the Caves of the Ve'zere is also given. 



Of the Cave-dwellers themselves much is reported in this Work. Such of 

 their Skulls and other Bones as have been met with are described in full by Dr. 

 PRTJNER-BEY, Dr. BROCA, and Dr. HAMY, and commented on by M. DE QUATRE- 

 FAGES. Their features, stature, characters, and race have been discussed. Their 

 habits have been elucidated in the descriptions of their Weapons and other Im- 

 plements adapted for shooting or darting, stabbing, clubbing, cutting, chopping, 

 flensing, scraping, smoothing, grinding, boring, drilling, and other work, wanted 

 either in peace or war, in hunting and fishing, in domestic operations, and in 

 designing the works of art which so markedly characterized this peculiar people 

 of Western Europe. Their cooking- stones, hearths, and mortars ; their bodkins 



