Abstract
A MELANCHOLY interest attaches to a paper entitled “Nouvelles découvertes à Laugerie Basse: Rabots, os utilisés, œuvres d'art,” by Capt. Bourlon, published in the last issue of L'Anthropologie (vol. xvii., Nos. 1–2, for January-April), because the gallant officer was killed at the opening of the war. The paper has now been edited by M. l'Abbé Breuil. These new discoveries in this famous cave are of remarkable interest, including a fine collection of flint implements, among which the rabots, or scrapers, are of exceptional interest. We have also fine examples of work in bone, including many heads of animals engraved on this material. The engravings on stone, besides those of the normal type, display some curious variants. Of these the most remarkable are a splendid picture of a red bear, stags, bison, and a figure of a bird with a long, slightly curved beak, with a protuberance on the throat, which may make it possible to identify the species.
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