M. Lartet, however, has recently published a circumstantial account of what seems clearly to have been a sepulchral vault of the Pleistocene period, near Aurignac, not far from the foot of the Pyrenees. I have had the advantage of inspecting the fossil bones and works of art obtained by him from that grotto, and of conversing and corresponding with him on the subject, and can see no grounds for doubting the soundness of his conclusions.* (* See Lartet, "Annales des Sci. Nat." 4mo. Ser. Zoologie volume 15 page 177 translated in "Natural History Review" London January 1862.) [Illustration: Figure 25. Hill of Fajoles] (FIGURE 25. SECTION OF PART OF THE HILL OF FAJOLES PASSING THROUGH THE SEPULCHRAL GROTTO OF AURIGNAC (E. Lartet). a. Part of the vault in which the remains of seventeen human skeletons were found. b. Layer of made ground, two feet thick, inside the grotto in which a few human bones, with entire bones of extinct and living species of animals, and many works of art were embedded. c. Layers of ashes and charcoal, six inches thick, with broken, burnt, and gnawed bones of extinct and Recent mammalia; also hearth-stones and works of art; no human bones. d. Deposit with similar contents and a few scattered cinders. e. Talus of rubbish washed down from the hill above. f, g. Slab of rock which closed the vault, not ascertained whether it extended to h. f i. Rabbit burrow which led to the discovery of the grotto. h, k. Original terrace on which the grotto opened. N. Nummulitic limestone of hill of Fajoles.) The town of Aurignac is situated in the department of the Haute-Garonne, near a spur of the Pyrenees; adjoining it is the small flat-topped hill of Fajoles, about 60 feet above the brook called Rodes, which flows at its foot on one side. It consists of Nummulitic limestone, presenting a steep escarpment towards the north-west, on which side in the face of the rock, about 45 feet above the brook, is now visible the entrance of a grotto a, Figure 25, which opened originally on the terrace h, c, k, which slopes gently towards the valley.