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the large and important work entitled, " An Introduction 

 to the Study of the Foraminifera." 



Among Dr. Carpenter's favourite recreations was an 

 occasional visit to Paris. He had many friends and cor- 

 respondents among the savans of the French capital. With 

 Professor Milne Edwards he was united by many ties of 

 common work ; and he was always sure of finding there a 

 fresh sympathy in his researches and speculations. There, 

 during the Easter vacation of 1863, he heard of the dis- 

 covery of the flint implements and the human jaw at 

 Abbeville. A day's inquiry on the spot on his way home 

 greatly excited his interest, and led him to return in the 

 following month, with Mr. George Busk, Dr. Falconer, and 

 Mr. Prestwich, to take part in the investigation which 

 ensued. The question to be decided was the antiquity of 

 the bone. Professor Milne Edwards presided over the 

 inquiry. '' He has the great advantage," reported Dr. 

 Carpenter, "of being able to interpret each side to the 

 "other when there is any difficulty. The discussion has 

 " been most friendly, and I think that each side has found 

 " that the other had more to say than was expected." 



So the fiftieth year of his life ran on ; and when the 

 family greetings poured in upon him on his birthday, he 

 uttered his feelings with unusual copiousness and freedom 

 in a sort of general epistle. 



London, October 30, 1863. 

 There is great beauty in the expression Avhich almost all of 

 you have quoled about " the sunny side of fifty." I had quite 

 forgotten it, if I ever heard it; but I can fancy good Dr. 

 Tuckeiman's genial utterance of it, and can heartily respond 

 to it. 



After dwelling on his home-happiness, he continued — 



My social position, too, is such as when I entered upon life, 

 sacrificing whatever prospects I might have had for the more 



