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"THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES" 51 



facts I should have come to the same conclusion 

 myself." 



At Easter, Lubbock had enjoyed a pleasant 

 and instructive trip in France with Sir J. Prest- 

 wich, Sir D. Galton, and Mr. Busk, visiting the 

 venerable M. Boucher de Perthes at Abbeville 

 and going in his company to the gravels of the 

 Somme Valley. 



( He fully satisfied himself that the implements 

 found in these beds were genuine, and that the 

 men who made them were contemporaneous 

 with the Mammoth and the Woolly - haired 

 Rhinoceros. On the other hand, these species 

 were never found in association with polished 

 celts, such as those contained in the tumuli 

 belonging to the Stone Age. 



He proposed, therefore, for the earlier remains 

 the name Palaeolithic, or Earlier Stone Age 

 remains ; and for the polished and later stone 

 implements the name Neolithic. These names 

 have been so generally adopted, and are now so 

 familiar, that it may be a surprise to the reader 

 o learn that their origin was so recent.") 





