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Eozoon requires an amount of knowledge of minerals, of the more humble 
types of animals, and of the condition of the mineralization of organic 
remains. 
RELIQULE AQUITANICzE — Concluding Part,* 
I T was in the same month as that in which the present notice is 
written, and in the year 1865, that the first part of this splendid 
essay made its appearance. And now, in the last portion of the year 1875, 
the final “part” appears. In ten years how many mighty changes have 
taken place ! The two great leaders of Geological Science have within that 
period gone to their last resting-place, and the two distinguished men — M. 
E. Lartet and Mr. Christy — whose names appear on the title-page of this 
work have likewise rendered their account to Heaven. The volume, there- 
fore, although it is a very valuable one, is by no means the sort of work 
that Mr. Christy or M. Lartet would have made it had they lived. Indeed, 
if we have a fault to find, it is with the want of connection which exists 
between the different portions of the volume. It partakes more of the cha- 
racter of a journal to which different men contribute without the least regard 
to each other’s writings, than anything else. It wants the connecting link 
which would surely have been presented had either of the original authors 
been in existence. How can it be otherwise when we have thrown together 
papers by Prof. Rupert Jones, M. Louis Lartet, Dr. Primer Bey, M. de 
Quatrefages, Mr. J. Evans, Mr. A. C. Anderson, Mr. L. Austen, Dr. Sauvage, 
Dr. A. Milne Edwards, Dr. E. Harvey, and Mr. T. G. B. Lloyd, together 
with a few of the original authors’ essays P The reader may at first 
sight consider that the editor is to blame for this. But in consideration of 
the statements he has put forward, we at once perceive that he is perfectly 
free from censure. He says the “ mammalian remains are still undescribed, 
for M. Lartet’s notes were left in too fragmentary and unfinished a state to 
yield a continuous memoir, and no other palaeontologist as yet has turned 
his attention to the subject.” However, even admitting this loss, we must 
confess that a tolerably good account of the people who lived in this period 
may be gleaned from the various descriptions given ; and we may admit the 
editor’s assertion that the features, stature, character, and race of the cave- 
dwellers in this portion of the globe have been fully detailed. “ Their habits 
have been elucidated in the descriptions of their weapons and other imple- 
ments adapted for shooting or darting, stabbing, clubbing, cutting, chopping, 
scraping, boring, drilling, and other work wanted in either peace or war ; in 
hunting or fishing, in domestic operations ; and in designing the works of 
art which so markedly characterised this peculiar people of W estern Europe. 
Their cooking stoves, hearths, and mortars ; their bodkins and sewing 
needles ; their personal ornaments and amulets, perforated for stringing ; their 
* u Reliquiae Aquitanicae ; being contributions to the Archaeology and 
Palaeontology of Perigord and the adjoining Provinces of Southern France.” 
By E. Lartet and Henry Christy. Edited by T. R. Jones, F.R.S., F.G.S. 
London : Williams and Norgate. Nov. 1875. 
