^T. 51.] ABBEVILLE. 189 



J. Prestwich to H. Falconer. 2 SUFFOLK LANE, 29th May. 



MY DEAR FALCONER, I send you the title of my paper. I 

 have ascertained that the 3rd and 4th papers do not come on. 

 So I hope you will be able to bring on your notice about the 

 jaw, which I now think you were right in wishing to have on 

 the same evening as my paper, especially as there is but one 

 more meeting after the 3rd June. The 1st part of my paper on 

 the Geological question I shall send in to-morrow, but the 2nd 

 part on the Flints I must reserve till Tuesday, after our return 

 from Abbeville, when I hope the question of their authenticity 

 or forgery will be finally settled by the further opinion of Evans, 

 Flower, Lubbock, and possibly Austen. 



As the matter now stands, Evans considers, as you, that there 

 is some inexplicable mystery about the matter which he cannot 

 explain. This, however, is a question of fact respecting which I 

 hope he will be able to satisfy himself one way or the other on 

 this visit. Not so the jaw, about which I can well understand 

 your reserve, though I do not share it. There is the same 

 mystery, whilst unfortunately there are not the same means to 

 investigate it. As the section has been worked so many feet 

 back, I do not see how now it can ever be solved without the 

 discovery of another jaw or human bone in the same position, 

 or, if there has been fraud, by the confession of the culprit. I 

 send you Delesse's letter, which please return. 



A note-book entry after the conference records : 



30th May 1863. 3rd visit to Abbeville with Evans, Lubbock, 

 and Wickham Flower. Dr F. Garrigou of Toulouse met us at 

 Abbeville. 



31st, morning, to 1'Hopital Champ de Mars and Moulin 

 Quignon. One flint implement found by us in talus, seemingly 

 just fallen from black-band. . . . 



Out to Mesnieres by Mautort and Moyenville. 



A letter on " The Human Jaw of Abbeville," which 

 appeared in the ' Athenaeum ' of June 13th, was from 



