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at once came to Brandon to see my evidence, and I showed 

 him glacial clay that was pretty nearlj^ all chalk, much to 

 his surprise and dehght. Amund Helland, the Norwegian 

 geologist, had recently returned from Greenland, where a 

 study of the ice had converted him to Geikie's views, and as 

 soon as he heard of my work he hurried to England and a 

 glorious time we had together before I packed him off to 

 Geikie in Scotland. Then Geikie and I spent part of a summer 

 in the Outer Hebrides working out their glacial history. Mean- 

 while a second edition of the " Great Ice Age" was called 

 for and I wrote the better part of two chapters for it. Just 

 as it was about to be issued I found my first implement in my 

 Brandon Beds, sent Geikie the glad news, and he Avas able to 

 note the fact in his preface. 



As regards mans remains the case stood thus : — M. Boucher 

 de Perthes had discovered what he beheved to be flint tools 

 in the gravels of the Somme associated with the remains of 

 extinct animals, the mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, &c. Great 

 was the stir, great the indignation at presuming to aver that 

 man was more than 5,000 years old. The thing was impossible, 

 impious, and patently absurd. No mention of such a thing 

 occurred in any Hebrew or Greek text or in any of the commen- 

 taries, and this pithy and conclusive reasoning settled the 

 matter. It was one of tho.se knock-down blows that convince 

 everybody but the person aimed at. A commission containing 

 LyeU, Prestwich, Lubbock, Tj^lor, and others went over to 

 Abbeville and Amiens, looked into the matter, were convinced, 

 and from that time no geologist doubts man's contemporaneity 

 with the mammoth. Here is one of the original Abbeville 

 implements from Tylor's collection. It dates from about three 

 years before I knew him (exhibited). 



Then my good old Quaker friend William Pengelly was 

 making similar finds in Kent's Cavern, Torquay, and soon a 

 perfect rage for cave-hunting set in, in which my colleague 

 Boyd Daw kins distinguished himself. Edward Tylor some 

 years before had gone to the West Indies for health's sake, and 

 in Havanah met Mr. Christy the rich London hatter, who was 

 then making his unrivalled anthropological collection. The 

 two went to Mexico to study its antiquities, and this made 

 Edward Tylor an anthropologist whose name is now famihar 

 in our mouths as household words. Among the things Tylor 

 elucidated was the origin of certain strange fluted stones, which 



