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with advantage have been omitted. In writing of the Aptera and describ- 
ing the integument of the common flea, the author says : — It is the 
breaking of this hard skin which produces the crack which is heard when, 
after a successful hunt, one has the happiness to crush one of these parasites 
between one’s nails.” The publishers have aimed at producing a drawing- 
room series, and they should avoid anything suggestive of the practical 
hygiene of Seven-dials and Whitechapel. The illustrations do not equal 
those of the French edition; a circumstance, we apprehend, due, not so 
much to any defect in English working,” as to the fact that the French 
€mploy an unglazed paper, which is better adapted to the reception of delicate 
shadings than ours is; In other respects the English is fully equal to the 
French volume; and we give it our general approval. 
EELIQU^ AQUITANIC^.* 
P AI?,TS yi. and YII. of this luxuriously printed and illustrated work are 
now before us, and the highest praise we can give them is to say that 
they are fully, equal to all the preceding issues. The flrst of the two num- 
bers under, notice continues the account of North American implements, 
uncompleted in Part V., and includes a very interesting letter on this subject 
from Mr. Kobert Brown. Then follows an account , of the human bones 
found in the cave of Cro-magnon in Dordogne. This is by M. Pruner Bey, 
the celebrated anthropologist, and is of considerable value. In this cave 
were found the skeletons of four adults and one immature infant. There 
are, says the writer, more or less perfect skulls and some bones of the ex- 
tremities of three fully-grown individuals, together with ribs, vertebra, and 
fragments of a pelvis and collar-bone. Of a fourth individual there remain 
only some portions of the calvarium, half of the upper alveolar process, and a 
piece of the jaw. Some bones of a foetus were, singularly enough, also 
found here. Among the collection, the skeleton of an old man, whom M. 
Pruner Bey regards as the head of the family, are best preserved, having 
been covered by a thin layer of stalagmite. The detailed description of 
the size and processes of these bones is too technical for our pages, but 
we may say that they do not indicate any very marked inferiority of 
cranial development. The plates in Part VI. are six in number, and 
delineate the skulls .in different aspects— the last plate being, devoted to 
representations of the long bones. The flgures are tinted, to represent the 
colour of the original specimens, and they are the very beau ideal of artistic 
beauty and excellence of anatomical drawing. While the tout ensemble 
is faithful to the original objects, the attention to details is shown in the 
fidelity -with which the natural sutures and the injuries affected by post- 
mortem exposure to external influences are brought out.* Part VII. contains 
* ^^Beliquse Aquitanicae, being Contributions to the Archasology and 
Palaeontology of Perigord and the Adjoining Provinces of Southern France.” 
By Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. Edited by T, Rupert Jones. 
Parts VI. and VII. London : Bailliere. 1868. 
