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influence of tlie beetle, and yarious other instances might be cited. What 
a beneflt to agriculture, then, it must be to have a person employed by the 
State, whose sole duty it is to go about and investigate the nature of those 
insects which inhabit farms, and to find out the injurious and beneficial 
forms, and also the means of encouraging or exterminating them. Such a 
work is that of the author of the volume before us, who has pointed out 
various insects which are injurious, and has furnished the means of exter- 
minating them. This Report is furnished with an introduction to the 
study of entomology, which gives illustrations of the different plans of 
capturing and preserving insects, whilst the book itself is full of interesting 
and valuable details. 
HIS lavishly executed work, which has been in progress for so many 
years, was, as our readers are aware, originally from the joint author-* 
hip of M. Edouard Lartet and Mr. Henry Christy. These distinguished 
savants are no longer in existence, and the work on which they bestowed 
their united labours is now committed to the charge of Professor Rupert 
Jones, E.R.S. And it has not been delivered over to idle hands, or to those 
who will not expend as much time and research as the original authors! 
bestowed upon it. Indeed Professor Jones has already given evidence of 
this in the manner in which he has brought out another portion of this 
work beside the present one ; and as there are in all but fifteen parts to 
appear, and this is the twelfth, we may soon anticipate the completion of the 
treatise. The main portion of this, the twelfth part, is occupied by an able 
paper from the pen of J. Evans, F.R.S., whose splendid treatise on the 
Flint Implements of . Great Britain our readers are already familiar with. 
It is upon certain bone and cave deposits of the Reindeer period in the 
South of France. The remarks were originally read before the Geological 
Society, but were only printed in abstract in its Quarterly Journal.” Mr. 
Evans’ observations, which are abundantly illustrated, are fully descriptive 
of many caverns and hollows which contain prehistoric remains, but withal 
there is exhibited a considerable reticence as to the expression of an opinion, 
regarding the absolute age of these deposits. In reference to relative antiquity 
he is more decided in opinion ; for he, as others do, especially M. Gabrie^ 
de Mortillet, regards the Moustier remains as unquestionably of a highe?: 
antiquity than those of other caves. Apart from this paper of Mr. Evans^ 
the number concludes the observations on the Reindeer and Hippopotamus^ 
and is as usual illustrated by a number of exquisite plates qf flint weapon^ 
and carved boms. These are splendid engravings as work of art ; they are 
immensely superior to any work executed in these countries, being drawn ■ 
and lithographed by Louveau, and printed by Becquet, both of whom are 
Parisian artists. 
* “ Reliquiae Aquitanicse ; ” being contributions to the Archaeology and 
Palaeontology of Perigord and the adjoining Provinces of Southern France* 
By Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy. Edited by T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. 
Part Xll. London: Williams and Norgate, 1873; 
RELIQUIAE AQUITANIC^.* 
