956 The American Naturalist. [November, 
author, should be a guage of the effect of the Glacial Period upon the 
present faunal distribution of life. The tables indicate that on the 
whole the fauna of the East has nearly or quite recovered from its 
enforced removal from the northern States and Canada at the time of 
the Glacial Period, and that the Glacial influence is seen now only in 
minor features, such as boreal faunas lingering in favorable spots amid 
temperate surroundings, and the similar features induced by the latitu- 
dinal trend of our great mountain chains. (Am. Journ. Sci., Vol. 
XLVIII, 1894.) 
A mong the fossils recently found in the cavern de L’ Herm (Ariége), 
France, are two that M. Boule considers worthy of special attention. 
The first is the lower jaw of a Glutton (Gulo luscus), the other the 
left inferior mandible of a Felis of enormous size. A comparison of 
the former with fossil Gluttons from other caverns in France, and the 
Ferest-bed of England, shows a difference in size only. This, M. Boule 
thinks, does not warrant the new species name, Gulo speleus, applied 
to it by Goldfuss. M. Boule is opposed also to making a distinct spe- 
cies of the Cave Lion, preferring to consider it a varying form of Felis 
leo, and agrees with the English paleontologists in designating it Felis 
leo var. spelea. 
