184 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. [l863. 



J. Prestwich to J. Evans. LONDON, Saturday [1863]. 



MY DEAR EVANS, I have a letter of twelve pages with a 

 supplement of two from Boucher de Perthes. Dr Falconer, Car- 

 penter, and Busk went to Paris last night. I have a letter from 

 Lartet this morning. He much wishes you and me to go over : 

 I have just decided to do so, and am off by this mail train to- 

 night. If you have anything to say, or if you come, you will find 

 me at the Hotel de Tours. Will Friday next suit you as well 

 as Wednesday to meet Dr Torrell ? I shall write to him from 

 Paris. I hope to be back on Tuesday, but it is uncertain. Ever 

 truly yours, J. PRESTWICH. 



J. Prestmch to H. Falconer. LONDON, 9th May 1863. 



MY DEAR FALCONER, I have arranged to run over to Paris, 

 and shall start by mail train to-night. As M. Quatrefages could 

 not attend a meeting to-day, in consequence of his lecture, until 

 after 4J, I suppose there will not be much done to-day, and that 

 I shall not be much after time if I present myself to-morrow 

 morning. I propose stopping at the Hotel de Tours, and will 

 call at M. Lartet's between 10J and 11. I feel the case to be 

 one in which the good understanding with our French friends is 

 so much concerned that I feel as you do, most anxious to discuss 

 in a personal and amicable interview all points of difference, and 

 have therefore arranged to play truant from the City for two or 

 three days. 



I shall bring over a few more specimens with me, together 

 with various gravels and some fragments of bone. An revoir. 

 Yours ever truly, Jos. PRESTWICH. 



Pray thank M. Lartet for his kind letter to me received to-day, 

 and which has considerably influenced my decision. 



The English deputation consisted of Messrs Prest- 

 wich, Falconer, Busk, and Carpenter, while the French 

 members consisted chiefly of members of the Institute, 

 MM. de Quatrefages, Edouard Lartet the palaeon- 

 tologist, Desnoyers the geologist, and Delesse, professor 



