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specimens had been lithographed in readiness for publication: indeed, 
MM. Lartet and Christy had commenced a large work illustrative 
of these Aquitanian Antiquities; and this, we hope, will be com- 
pleted by M. Lartet. These fellow-labourers have already supplied 
the public with preliminary notices of the results of their explora- 
tions, in the Comptes Rendus, Feb. 29, 1864 ; the Revue Archéologique, 
April 1864, and the Transactions of the Ethnological Society of 
“London, June 21, 1864; and the Reindeer Period, lying somewhere 
between the Glacial Epoch and Traditionary Times, has thereby 
received considerable elucidation at the hands of the paleontologist 
and ethnologist. 
Mr. Christy was well known as a philanthropist. He was espe- 
cially active during the Irish famine, and his subscriptions were 
munificent. He delighted to serve others; and no one will know, 
not even many of the recipients of his kindness, how much was 
done with the right hand, of which the left was hardly cognizant. 
Mr. Christy was a Fellow of many Scientific Societies, and had 
been selected by the Council of the Royal Society as one of this 
year’s fifteen candidates.—W. T. and T. R. J. 
Tue celebrated Swiss geologist, M. A. Gressty, died in April 
last, of tetanus. The ‘ Premier Mars’ says of him, ‘he was a child 
of the people, loved and known by all. Possessing vast knowledge 
and most profoundly acquainted with the structure of our mountains, 
yet was he simple and unostentatious. Gressly had no enemies; 
envy and jealousy had no place in his heart; he was, at it were, an 
echo of another age. No one was more popular than he in the 
Jura; from the Perte-du-Rhone to the Rhine there was not a village 
in which he did not count friends, and where his arrival was not 
saluted with acclamations.’ Gressly was the author of several papers 
on the geological structure of the Jura Mountains, especially those 
of his own Canton-Soleure. He furnished Agassiz with a large 
proportion of the materials for his Molluscan Monographs; and one 
genus (Gresslya, a characteristic Lower Jurassic form) was dedicated 
to him.*—R. T. 
Cycaps and Patms seem to have been very rare plants in the 
Carboniferous Period. The only well-authenticated fossil remains of 
Palm in the Coal-measures are fragments of fronds figured and de- 
scribed lately by Sandberger, as Palmacites crassinervius (Flora der 
oberen Steinkohlenformation im Badischen Schwarzwald, Karlsruhe, 
1864, pl. 8); and well-preserved fossil fruits of a Palm, Gulelmites 
Permianus, have been figured and described by Geinitz, from the 
next succeeding geological formation (the Permian). Of the Cycade- 
ous Plants, Pterophyllum gonorrhachis, Goeppert, and Pt. blechnoides, 
Sandberger (Ibid. pl. 2), are the only good specimens known. Dr. 
Hooker, however, has indicated the existence of the wood of a Cycad 
in the Coal. Péerophyllum Cotte@anum, Gutbier, is found in the 
Permian Marlstone of Saxony, and this genus becomes frequent 
enough in the Trias and Lias. 
* Translation in part from a Swiss newspaper, April 28th. 
