124 AMIENS AND ABBEVILLE. [l859. 



wich had been joined a few hours after arrival by 

 Evans ; l and next day, on account of a telegram re- 

 ceived, they went together to Amiens, where they saw 

 an implement in situ in the gravel, and had the section 

 photographed. The great caution exercised by our 

 geologist in accepting no evidence except that which 

 he had himself personally investigated was proverbial. 

 In this case his decision was quickly made. On the 

 26th of May one month after his arrival at Amiens 

 his great paper, " On the Occurrence of Flint-imple- 

 ments, associated with Remains of Animals of Extinct 

 Species in Beds of a Late Geological Period, in France 

 at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne," 

 was read before the Royal Society. 



Before the completion of this memoir he made a 

 second expedition to the Abbeville district, accompanied 

 by Messrs Godwin -Austen, J. Wickham Flower, and 

 R. W. Mylne. This again was followed by a brief visit 

 from Sir Charles Lyell, who happened to be in Paris at 

 the same time. 



Sir C. Lyell to J. Prestwick. 



45 RUE DE PONTHIETT, Mli April [May ?]. 



MY DEAR PRESTWICH, I will be in time for the 4 P.M. train, 

 and shall have an opportunity of talking over what you have 

 seen at Joinville as we go to Precy together, and compare notes, 

 as I have already seen C. D'Orbigny's section. 



I shall go direct to Amiens, as I cannot stand getting there in 

 the middle of the night. It would unfit me for next day's work 

 at Amiens. In case your letters prevent you starting, I may say 

 that I shall go at any rate to Amiens to the Hotel de France et 

 d'Angleterre. 



I shall hope at any rate to have the journey together to Precy 

 and to work next morning at Amiens. Ever most truly yours, 



CHA. LYELL. 



1 Now Sir John Evans, K.C.B. 



