2ET. 51.] OWEN VERSUS HUXLEY. 181 



reprinted, except the last paragraph, in ' Public 

 Opinion' for May of the same year. 



In the course of the case the following conversation 

 is supposed to take place : 



The Lord Mayor here asked whether either party were known 

 to the police ? 



Policeman X. Huxley, your Worship, I take to be a young 

 hand, but very vicious ; but Owen I have seen before. He got 

 into trouble with an old bone-man, called Mantell, who never 

 could be off complaining as Owen prigged his bones. People did 

 say that the old man never got over it, and Owen worrited him 

 to death ; but I don't think it was so bad as that. Hears as 

 Owen takes the chair at a crib in Bloomsbury. I don't think 

 it be a harmonic meeting altogether. And Huxley hangs out 

 in Jermyn Street. 



Lord Mayor. Do you know any of their associates ? 



Policeman X. I have heard that Hooker, who travels in the 

 green and vegetable line, pats Huxley on the back a good deal ; 

 and Lyell, the resurrectionist, and some others, who keep dark at 

 present, are pals of Huxley's. 



Lord Mayor. Lyell, Lyell ; surely I have heard that name 

 before. 



Policeman X. Very like you may, your Worship; there's a 

 fight getting up between him and Falconer, the old bone-man, 

 with Prestwich, the gravel-sifter, for backer. 



J. Preslwich to M. Edouard Lartet. LONDON, 5th May 1863. 



MY DEAR SIR, I much wish I could accompany Dr Falconer 

 to Paris to assist and aid at this curious inquiry respecting 

 the Abbeville jaw, which promises to be one of the causes 

 cttelres in science. When Mr Evans and I called on our ex- 

 cellent friend M. Boucher de Perthes early in the morning of 

 Monday the 13th of April, M. de Perthes at once showed us the 

 jaw, together with the flint implements he had found with it. 

 About the jaw I will say nothing more, as we were not com- 

 petent witnesses as to its peculiarities, and as to its fossil con- 

 dition we had no opportunities of examining. 



