JET. 51.] LYELL. 177 



ing what others had written, and after examining him- 

 self the clearest sections to which he could get access. 

 A letter from Prestwich (dated April 20) was published 

 in a later number of the ' Athenaeum/ wherein the 

 writer pointed out that Lyell was addressing a scien- 

 tific as well as a popular public, and that it was not so 

 much a question of frequent as of accurate reference to 

 the authorities who had established the antiquity of 

 man. 



This correspondence was at the time naturally pain- 

 ful to all concerned. If we turn to the fourth edition 

 of the 'Antiquity of Man,' published in 1873, we find 

 that the author completely recast the chapter relating 

 to Brixham Cavern and Kent's Hole, and that the 

 history of research both among cavern and river de- 

 posits was as fully told as the original workers could 

 desire. Prestwich and Falconer had been the pioneers 

 in the inquiry throughout, and were the patient in- 

 vestigators of the evidence. 



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