THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



November 6, 1861. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. Note on the Bone-Cates of Lu^^el-Viel, Herault. By Monsieur 

 Marcel de Serres, Professor at the " Faculte des Sciences," 

 MontpeUier. 



[Abridged.] 



The discovery of the bone -caves on the Mazet estate, near Lunel- 

 Viel, already dates back thirty-eight years. Since then I have 

 ^isited some twenty others, of which the names are solely known by 

 the descriptions given of them by myself and my collaborateurs. 



The femui' of an Aurochs brought me by Colonel Prost and Captain 

 Rompleur, K.E.,lcd me to presume that it had been transported into 

 the caves of M. Bouquet and belonged to a bone-deposit of late geo- 

 logical date. The partial search that I immediately made justified 

 my predictions, and the government accorded me a sum sufficient for 

 me to collect every specimen. I had the soil containing the bones 

 sifted, and I was thus able to collect a large number of the bones, 

 which are now in the collection of the '' Faculte des Sciences." 



Unfortunately several of the bones were taken from me by some 

 persons more alive to the marvellous than to the interests of science, 



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