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sketchy palaeontology than anything else. The chapter on the diamond’s 
history (from which the preceding cut is figured) is a good one. It relates, 
besides the history of the time of the diamond discoveries in Brazil, the 
manner in which diamonds were found at South Africa, and it states that 
no less than 1,500,000/. worth were sent from the Cape of Good Hope in the 
year 1871. The figures of the different minerals are all given, as well as 
general sketches, so that the scientific reader will not be disappointed. 
Among the different illustrations there is one which the Publishers have 
lent us, and which is of interest. It is a figure of a piece of amber large 
enough to enclose a lizard, which is distinctly seen buried in the mass. This 
specimen belonged originally to the late well-known Duke of Brunswick, 
by whom it was given to the Kirckers collection. There are many other 
points of interest in the book, but we have given enough to show that the 
volume is an excellent popular account of what some think an uninteresting 
subject. 
PALAEONTOLOGY OF PERIGORD.* 
T HIS noble work, which was so well and so long ago begun by M. Lartet 
and Mr. Christy, and which is now very near its completion, is solely 
under the editorship of Professor Rupert Jones, the two authors having both 
died since the book was begun. We have now before us Parts XIII. and 
XIV., and we are nearly as well pleased with them as we were with those 
that have gone before. We say nearly, for we are not quite so satisfied 
with Part XIII., which has two of its plates executed, not by the well-known 
* “ Reliquiae Aquitanicae : being Contributions to the Archaeology and 
Palaeontology of Perigord, &c.” By Edward Lartet and Henry Christy. 
Edited by T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. Parts XIII. and XIV. London: 
Williams and Norgate. 
