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CHAPTER VI. 



1860-1863. 



ANTIQUITY OF MAN FIELD GEOLOGY- 

 GEOLOGICAL MAPS. 



THE subject of the Antiquity of Man now attracted 

 universal attention, and Prestwich, who with Falconer 

 had all along duly estimated the value of the evidence 

 afforded by the English caves, was more eager than 

 ever that the fossil bones exhumed from Brixham 

 Cavern should be accurately determined. They had 

 been sent to the Geological Society in London, but 

 it so happened that as Dr Falconer had selected 

 Torquay this winter as a residence, our geologist wrote 

 early in January, suggesting that the Brixham spoils 

 should be returned to him at Torquay, and this was 

 accordingly done. 



There were frequent letters between Sir Charles 

 Lyell and Prestwich at this date : 



J. Prestwich to Sir Charles Lyell. SUFFOLK LANE, 3rd January 1860. 



MY DEAR SIR CHARLES, There is no doubt you were wrong 

 originally about Mundesley. I satisfied myself on that point 

 some years since, and have since returned three times to make 

 sure about it before bringing forward my paper on the Crag and 



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