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I laid in new supplies of Tertiary and Post-Tertiary lore. 

 Returning to England I found Lord Gosehen had inaugurated 

 the Universit}^ Extension scheme, and I became one of the 

 first lecturers. The London Listitution asked me to lecture 

 on Man, and I gave the first course of lectures ever delivered 

 in London upon that subject at the famous institution in 

 Finsbury Square. I also gave courses on Anthropology for 

 the University Extension, naturally setting forth mj^ views. 



Then came the death of my beloved Alfred Tylor, and there 

 Avas now nothing to keep me in England. I went to America 

 and after many days read the story of pre-glacial man in 

 CaUfomia, as you may see in the Journal of the Anthropological 

 Society for 1888, and a stone mortar from those old gravels 

 of Butte County that I brought home is in the British Museum. 

 The j)aper (read in my absence abroad) attracted but Httle 

 attention, though S. Laing commented on it favourably in one 

 of liis thoughtful and delightful books. Even my friend 

 Alfred Russel Wallace seemed obhvious of it, for he wrote to 

 me that the remarks in liis Darwinism were from his own 

 observation — years after my visit. My American find shared 

 the fate of its Enghsh co-sinner. 



The evidence I rehed upon in America was entirely geological 

 — a fact I must dwell upon more particularly further on. The 

 artifacts were chiefly stone mortars, and they had been 

 known since about 1849. The American geological mind was 

 revolving in a sort of " Cahfomian wheel" which went round 

 and round to this sort of reasoning : The mortars are of 

 human origin, therefore the gravels are Post-Tertiary ; the- 

 flora in the gravels is Phocene, therefore the gravels are 

 Tertiary : clearly the gravels cannot be both ; clearly we 

 cannot ignore the 300 artifacts that had turned up by 1888, 

 and as the genesis of man is proved in Genesis, it is preferable 

 to abohsh the Phocene plants and the 100 feet of overlying 

 basalt and let Bishop Ussher be true and fossils and mortars 

 {having no souls to be lost) be post-tertiaried into respectability. 

 Faith was removing mountains. 



An opportunity of visiting Borneo ha\dng arisen I eagerlj^ 

 embraced it. From the time when in the lecture theatre of the 

 School of Mines (then in our Geological Survey building in 

 Jermyn street, London) I had followed ^^ith keen delight 

 Huxley's masterly description of the Neanderthal and other 



