EDITORIAL NOTE, 



THE publication of this Serial Work, descriptive of the Implements, Bones, &c. found by 

 MM. HENRY CHRISTY and EDOUARD LARTET in the Caves of the Vezere (Dordogne), Prance, 

 has again met with a sad and unexpected interruption from the Death of M. LARTET and the 

 Troubles of the French War. " 



At first intended to embrace a considerable portion of the Cave Relics of the whole Province 

 of AQUITAINE, the scope of this Work was necessarily limited after the lamented Death of 

 Mr. HENRY CHRISTY (May 4th, 1865), the enthusiastic fellow- worker with M. LARTET in the 

 Exploration of the Caves, and the originator of this Book, it being then decided that the 

 specimens already collected at Mr. H. CHRISTY'S expense should form the main basis of the 

 Essays and Descriptions. 



The great loss which Palaeontologists and Naturalists in general have suft'ered in the Decease 

 of M. E. LARTET affects us also very heavily, and, besides calling for our sincere sympathy with 

 his afflicted Family, has deprived us of still another valued Friend and able Coadjutor. 



The lamented M. LARTET had in 1865 cheerfully undertaken the labour of fulfilling all that, 

 from the loss of his friend and fellow-worker, H. CHRISTY, had fallen upon him to do, in carrying 

 out as far as possible the original intentions regarding the ' Reliquiae Aquitanicae.' 



Conscientiously and with loving care he fulfilled this melancholy, but congenial, task, though 

 much interrupted by ill-health and family affliction until, seriously invalided, and deeply 



