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up and carefully work out this latest of geological periods which 

 stretches to the border-line of Archaeology. 



When once these researches became known to the world by the 

 writings of Lyell, Prestwich, Falconer, Lubbock, Pengelly, Evans, 

 Lartet and Christy, Boyd-Dawkins and Sanford, Dupont, and many 

 others, it seemed as if the scientific men of every nation had only 

 been waiting some signal to announce their varied discoveries in this 

 field of Prehistoric Archaeology. 



Thus we simultaneously heard of the discovery of ancient settle- 

 ments built upon piles in the Swiss Lakes ; of Crannoges in the 

 Irish Bogs ; of Peat-mosses with abundant relics in Bronze and 

 Stone in Denmark ; of shell-mounds and refuse-heaps ; of Biver- 

 valley gravels with flint implements ; of ossiferous caverns and rock- 

 shelters in many countries, but notably in England, France and 

 Belgium. 



Upon none of these investigations has a larger share of careful 

 and laborious research been bestowed than that which the authors 

 of the Beliquia Aquitanicce 1 have devoted to the task of exploring the 

 Caves of the Vezere ; but of its two authors, Henry Christy did not 

 live to see the issue of the first part, 2 whilst M. Edouard Lartet 8 died 

 28th January, 1871, after the completion of the tenth Part. 



The task of carrying out the intentions of Mr. Henry Christy as 

 regards the publication of the results of his explorations, and those 

 of his colleague M. Edouard Lartet, has been ably and generously 

 fulfilled by Mr. Christy's brothers ; the direction of the work having 

 been entrusted to the care of M. Penguilly l'Haridon, Mr. John 

 Evans, F.E.S., Pres. Geol. Soc. Lond., Mr. A. W. Franks, F.K.S., 

 Dir. S.A., Mr. W. Tipping, F.S.A., and Professor T. Eupert Jones, 

 F.E.S., F.G-.S., the last-named gentleman having throughout fulfilled 

 the duties of Editor. 



How well that task has been fulfilled, and how carefully and 

 diligently, and lovingly too, each contributor has added of his store, 

 and how all this has been built in and cemented together by the able 

 Editor, Prof. Eupert Jones, let the 530 pages of text (with their 

 accompanying 87 plates and 135 engravings and woodcuts) which 

 complete the work, testify. 



Monuments have been erected in all times, of wood, of clay, of 

 stone, of ivory, iron, silver, and gold, but we doubt whether any 

 monument was ever before reared in paper to two fellow-workers 



1 Reliquice Aquitanicce ; being Contributions to tbe Archaeology and Palaeontology 

 of Perigord and the Adjoining Provinces of Southern France, by Edouard Lartet and 

 Henry Christy. Edited by Thomas Eupert Jones, F.E.S., F.G S., etc., Professor of 

 Geology, Eoyal Military and Staff Colleges, Sandhurst. Complete in Seventeen 

 Parts, comprising pp. 530, 4to. Illustrated by 87 plates, 3 maps, and 132 woodcuts. 

 London: 1865-75. H. Bailliere, Publisher. 



The " Beliquice Aquitanicce " has been already noticed in the Geological Maga- 

 zine for 1866, pp. 76 and 462 ; 1867, p. 321 ; 1868, p. 282 ; 1869, pp. 24, 277, 463 ; 

 1870, p. 174; 1873, p. 96. 



2 See Obituary Notice in Geol. Mag. 1865, Vol. II. p. 286. Mr. Henry Christy 

 died 4th May, 1865. 



3 See Obituary Notice by Pres. Geol. Soc. in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1872, 

 vol. xxviii. Ann. Address, p. xlv. 



