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Friday or Monday next. We shall not remain long at 

 the pits, but could show them to you and possibly, if you 

 could accompany us, might have to leave you there, as 

 I fear there might not be room in the carriage of Mr. 

 Meeson, who proposes to take us to some other pits in 

 the neighbourhood. The Grays pits are however the 

 great features, and these I shall be happy to show you 

 and to join you again there. — Believe me to remain, very 

 truly yours, Jn. Prestwich. 



The following letter from Charles Darwin 

 refers to the same discovery : 



Down, 19lh July 1855. 



Dear Lubbock — I had a note from Lyell this 

 morning, in which he says you have found the first 

 Ovibos moschatus ever discovered fossil in England ! 



I must congratulate you on such a capital discovery. 

 Considering the habits of Ovibos, and the nature of the 

 drift-beds, I declare I think it one of the most interesting 

 discoveries in fossils made for some years. ... I con- 

 gratulate you, and may this be the first of many inter- 

 esting geological observations. — Yours very truly, 



Ch. Darwin. 



I wish you could have come here on Tuesday. Adios ! 



With such encouragement as this from the 

 great men of science, it is no wonder that his 

 young enthusiasm was fostered and grew keener 

 than ever. 



In 1856 he wrote a paper in the Transactions 

 of the Entomological Society on some Ento- 

 mostraca, collected in the Atlantic Ocean by 

 Dr. Sutherland, and in the following year on 

 eight new species which he found in the English 

 Channel during a holiday spent at Weymouth. 



Here, for the first time, he met Mr. and Mrs. 

 Busk, who soon became, and till their death 

 remained, close and intimate friends. 



