The Life of the Weevil 
rescued from tne agents of destruction, they 
have endured through time and will endure 
indefinitely, under the cover of their wind- 
ing-sheet.”’ 
The same flood brought from the adjacent 
rain-swept shores a host of refuse, both vege- 
table and animal, so much so that the lacus- 
trian deposit tells also of things on land. It 
is a general record of the life of the time. 
Let us turn a page of our slab, or rather 
of our album. Here are winged seeds, 
leaves outlined in brown impressions. The 
stone herbal rivals the botanical clearness 
of our ordinary herbals. It repeats what 
the shells have already taught us: the world 
is changing, the sun is losing its strength. 
The vegetation of modern Provence is not 
what it was in the old days; it no longer 
includes palm-trees, laurels oozing with cam- 
phor, tufted araucarias and many other trees 
and shrubs whose equivalents belong to the 
torrid regions. 
Continue to turn the pages. We now 
come to insects. The most frequent are 
Diptera, of moderate size, often very humble 
Flies and Gnats. The teeth of the great 
Squali surprised us by their smooth polish 
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