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with the remains of extinct species, in beds of a late Geological 

 Period, May 19, 1859), while Mr. Evans described the implements 

 themselves in the Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries (1860). 



Shortly afterwards Mr. Prestwich returned to Amiens and Abbe- 

 ville, accompanied by Messrs. Godwin Austen, J. W. Flower, and E. 

 "W. Mylne. In the same year Sir Charles Lyell, whose opinion on the 

 subject was naturally expected with great interest, visited the now 

 celebrated localities. In 1860, I made my first visit with Mr. Busk 

 and Captain Galton, under the guidance of IMr. Prestwich, while 

 SirEodericli Murchison, Professors Henslow, Eamsay, Eogers, Messrs. 

 H. Christy, Eupert Jones, James Wyatt, and other geologists, 

 followed on the same errand. M. L'Abbe Cochet, therefore ,_ in his 

 " Eapport adresse a Monsieur le Senateur Prefet de la Seine-In- 

 ferieure," (1860) does no more than justice to our countrymen, when 

 after a well-merited tribute of praise to M. Boucher de Perthes, and 

 Dr. Eigollot, he adds, " Mais ce sont les Geologues Anglais, en tete 

 " desquels il faut placer d'abord M.M. Prestwich et Evans, puis M. 

 " M. Flower, Mylne, et Godwin Austen, et enfin Sir C. Lyell .... 

 " qui .... out fini par elever a la dignite de fait scientifique la 

 " decouverte de M. Boucher de Perthes." 



Soon after his return, Mr. Prestwich addressed a communication 

 to the Academy of Sciences through M. Elie de Beaumont, in which 

 he urged the importance of these discoveries, and expressed a hope 

 that they would stimulate "les geologues de tons les pays a une 

 " etude encore plus approfondie des terrains quaternaires." The 

 subject being thus brought prominently before the geologists of 

 Paris, M. Gaudiy, well known for his interesting researches in 

 Greece, was sent to examine the weapons themselves, and the lo- 

 calities in which they were found. 



M. Gaudry was so fortunate as to find several flint weapons 

 in situ, and his report, which entirely confirmed the state- 

 ments made by M. Boucher de Perthes, led others to visit the 

 valley of the Somme, among whom I may mention M.M. de Quatre- 

 fages, Lartet, Collomb, Hebert, de Yerneuil, and G. Pouchet. 



In the " Antiquites Celtiques," M. Boucher de Perthes suggested 

 some gravel pits near Grenelle at Paris, as being, from their position 

 and appearance, likely places to contain flint implements. M. Gosse 

 of Geneva has actually found flint implements in these pits, being, I 

 believe, the first discovery of this nature in the valley of the Seine.* 

 In that of the Oise a small hatchet has been found by M. Peigne 

 Delaeourt at Precj', near Creil. 



Dr. Noulet has also found flint Aveapons with remains of extinct 

 animals at Clermont, near Toulouse. 



* M. L'Abbe Cochet states (1. c. p. 8) that similar weapons have been found at 

 Sotteville, near Rouen, and are deposited in the Musee d' Antiquites. There seems, 

 however, to be some mistake about these specimens, at least M. Pouchet, who 

 received us at Rouen with the greatest courtesy, was quite unaware of any such 

 discovery. 



