188 BEDFORD. [1863. 



Burlington House, a fire must be kindled, and into it must you, 

 and Falconer, and Lyell, and Tylor cast in all that you have 

 written against B. de P. and his gravel-diggers. 



On the same day you shall be limited to such a dinner as 

 Galton shall order for you at the Athenaeum. Being yours 

 truly, EGBERT A. C. GODWIN- AUSTEN. 



J. Prestwich to H. Falconer. 2 SUFFOLK LANE, 25th May 1863. 



MY DEAR FALCONER, I was not anxious to write to the 

 ' Athenaeum,' and as your short notice appeared last week, I think 

 I had better say nothing. ... I might then have said a few 

 words about the beds, but should have been silent about the 

 jaw. This, in fact, will be very much the subject of my paper 

 to the Geological Society. I wish to confine myself strictly to 

 the geological evidence, as the important question of the age of 

 the beds has again been raised by Elie de Beaumont. The two 

 points are independent don't let us mix them. We were at 

 Bedford yesterday. I wish you could have been with us. I 

 had no intention of going when I went to ISTash Mills on Satur- 

 day. Mr Wyatt was from home : I, however, called on my ac- 

 quaintance Eead, and found his collection from the railway-cutting 

 still unsold. I made a bid for it, and have obtained possession. 

 It contains some capital specimens. One remarkably fine tusk- 

 tooth of hippopotamus. Several teeth of the same and of rhin- 

 oceros, deer, elephant, felis, &c. Also 2 small tusks of hipp. 

 Would you kindly look at this collection? I should much 

 like to give a corrected list of the Bedford mammalia in my 

 notice of the Bedford beds forming part of my paper now before 

 the Eoyal Society. I am sorry to find that neither Christy nor 

 Busk can dine with us to-day. Ever yours, J. PRESTWICH. 



As might be expected, a paper on the subject from 

 Prestwich was read at the Geological Society, entitled, 

 " On the Section at Moulin Quignon, Abbeville, and on 

 the Peculiar Character of some of the Flint Implements 

 recently discovered there." The following letter refers 

 to it : 



