Revieivs — Lartet's and Christy's ReliquicB. 277 



to shew a tendency to give in where no concession is needed : 

 Prof. Huxley's answer is to our mind complete, and amounts to 

 this, that these accusations against geology fall to the ground, 

 unless those who bring them forward are admitted to be in possession 

 of all possible knowledge, in short, to be omniscient. To take 

 the one case of the sun ; are we sure that we know every possible 

 source from which his heat may be derived? No one would say 

 yes to such a question ; but if only one source has escaped us, all our 

 calculations are falsified. Nor can we neglect the possibility of the 

 circulation and return, in some way not yet found out, of heat which 

 these speculations assume is lost to us for ever. 



All geologists will render their hearty thanks to Prof. Huxley for 

 the masterly way in which he has conducted their case, and not a 

 few, we suspect, will rejoice that, in upsetting the somewhat arro- 

 gant claims of one of the leading Evolutionists of the day, he has 

 unwittingly furnished another proof that the time is not yet ripe for 

 us to look upon Evolutionism as a desirable companion for what we 

 have called Geology. — M.A. 



II. — Eeliqui^ Aqtjitanio^,' being Contributions to ih.Q Archaeology 

 and Palaeontology of Perigord and the adjoining Provinces of 

 Southern Erance. By Edouaud Labtet and Henky Chkisty, 

 Edited by Prof. Thomas Eupert Jones, E.G.S., etc. Part VIII. 

 April, 1869. 4to. London : H. Balliere. 



WE are glad to see another part of this valuable work, containing 

 a further instalment of the description of the Cro-Magnon 

 Eauna and the Human Skulls and Bones found in this most interest- 

 ing cavern. M. Lartet remarks that the Saiga Antelope remains — 

 of which, however, only the horn-cores have been met with — are 

 never found except in those stations which had been occupied by the 

 makers and users of barbed arrow-heads, and where the Eeindeer 

 predominates. The horn-cores of the Saiga Antelope have been met 

 with in six or seven different localities, always isolated, but not a 

 fragment of a jaw, or detached teeth, or any fragments of limb 

 bones referable to the Saiga, have been found. 



" How then," writes M. Lartet, " can we account for the frequent 

 occurrence of the horns of the Saiga in the caves of Central and 

 Southern Erance, and of no other portion whatever of the animal's 

 skeleton, except by supposing that the long, solid, and pointed horns 

 of the Saiga constituted a formidable weapon, which the Eeindeer- 

 hunters of Perigord probably obtained by barter, or commerce of 

 some sort from the people with whom this Antelope was indi- 

 genous ? " 



Of the human skulls and bones found in the cave of Cro-Magnon, 

 near Les Eyzies, Prof. Paul Broca observes : " No discovery could 

 be of greater interest to Anthropologists than that of these bones. 

 "It is the complement, I may say the crowning of the important 

 discoveries made by M. Edouard Lartet and his lamented collaborator 

 Henry Christy, in the Caves of Perigord, especially in that of Les 



