872 The American Naturalist. [October, 
fête day—the keeper politely gave us a short hour of his time to 
enable us to see the pre-Celtic and other prehistoric remains of 
stone, bronze, and iron. Here are amassed the rich vertebrate 
remains, including the bones of the mammoth from Mont Dol, 
Brittany, associated with human flint implements, many polished 
stone axes taken from dolmens; but of especial value are the 
fine Gallo-Romari remains and the many relics of the Merovingian 
age excavated from the Necropolis of Caranda. Among the 
many fine objects in the geological museum of interest to the 
anthropologist is an immense mass of jade from New Caledonia, 
perhaps a foot square. Merely glancing at the valuable zoological 
and art collections gracing the halls of a lyceum in a French 
provincial city of 60,000 inhabitants, and heaving a sigh at the 
utter lack of local museums and art collections in far wealthier 
provincial cities in the United States, we hurried to the station 
and took the train for Vannes. The afternoon was spent 
at this strikingly picturesque town, with its ancient timbered 
houses, leaning over toward each other across the narrow 
streets in such a social mood; with its medizeval walls and 
towers, its three notable gateways, its Norman cathedral, and 
lovely park and flower gardens. It was the fête day of the Vir- 
gin, and aprocession of men and boys, with women and girls in 
their white-starched caps, such as perhaps only gather in unique 
Brittany, filled the square and moved slowly down the incline, 
closing its ranks as it approached the most ancient of the city 
gates, the Porte Prison, situated between two machicolated towers 
rising from the town walls. 
One should visit the excellent museum here before passing on 
to Carnac. The Musée Archéologique is situated in the third 
story of a very old, rambling, timbered building, with creaking 
oak stairs and ghostly corridors. The rooms are small, but the 
cases contains very rich collections taken from the dolmens and 
tumuli we were afterward to visit. Here were placed together 
in the case the relics excavated in 1862 from Mont St. Michel, at 
Carnac, the largest burial mound in France. It comprises superb 
series of polished axes in jadeite, chloromelanite, fibrolite, and 
diorite, with a beautiful necklace of green turquoise. There was 


