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Plate VI. (all these being of reindeer horn from Dordogne), and 

 T^ig. 9, p. 50, which is from Bruniquel, we shall be at once struck 

 with their great superiority in workmanship over the ruder weapon 

 of the modern Esquimaux (Figs. 5 and 6), or Fuegian (Fig. 7), or 

 the harpoon of the Ancient Dane (Fig. 8), or North American (Fig. 

 12). Even the bone harpoon (Fig. 10), from the alluvium of the 

 Eiver Lacque, near Calais, appears to have belonged to an older, and 

 probably a ruder tribe. But time is not the only agent to be taken 

 into accomit in considering the progress of the human race. Other 

 influences, such as change of climate, the abundance or scarcity of 

 food, the freedom from or liability to attacks from neighbouring races 

 — these are often more potent in affecting the advancement or de- 

 terioration of a race, both socially and physically, than even centuries 

 would be. 



The cave-dwellers of France appear to have suffered less from 

 severity of climate than the Esquimaux of the present day ; their 

 food was more abundant and varied — consisting of venison, horse- 

 flesh, wild oxen, salmon, swans, grouse and other game ; their caves 

 afforded more safe retreats from hostile attacks, whether from beasts 

 of prey, or from man ; and this state of existence must have continued 

 for a very long period of time until the race was probably driven 

 northwards by a more powerful and better armed tribe who invaded 

 the himting-grounds of Aquitania. 



Much more has yet to be recorded of this ancient people, and we 

 look forward with interest to the appearance of the future parts of 

 this arand work. 



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THEEE are few men who have done more to promote a taste for 

 Natural History — especially among young people — than Mr. J. 

 W. Lowry. His Natural History Charts, though designed and en- 

 graved by himself, have all been carried out under the direction 

 of able naturalists, in the several branches of which they treat, 

 among these may be named such men as the late Mr. Henfrey and 

 Dr. S. P. Woodward, Mr. Adam \Vhite, Dr. Baird, Mr. Gosse, and 

 Mr. G-eorge Gray. 



Yisual education is not only the first form of training by which 

 the attention of youth is attracted, but it is also that which remains 

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