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lightened cooperation of the well-educated and intelligent Danish 

 people of all ranks, and which is under the direction of the emi- 

 nent scientific men who have added such lustre to the Scandina- 

 vian name. 



In the prosecution of his researches Mr. Christy was neces- 

 sarily thrown into close relations with numerous scientific men in 

 all parts of the world, none of whom will ever cease to cherish 

 the remembrance of the well-considered and liberally tendered 

 aid always readily afforded by our lamented friend. Nor will 

 those among them who were fortunate enough to experience it 

 ever forget the genial hospitality and kindly manner with which 

 they were invariably welcomed in this country by Mr. Christy. 



Of late years Mr. Christy's attention had been more particu- 

 larly directed to those branches of archsDological inquiry which 

 relate to the subject which at the present day, in one way or an- 

 other, occupies perhaps more widely than any other the interest 

 and attention of both the learned and the unlearned, and which, 

 in fact, more than any other, offers problems of the highest im- 

 portance in almost every branch of human knowledge ; for it 

 would be difficult to name any department of science which might 

 not be invoked to throw light upon the vast questions relating to 

 the origin and primitive relations of the human race. 



To tliis great and important question Mr. Christy devoted the 

 last years of his life, and, in fact, it may with truth be said, his 

 life itself; and few will be found who have contributed more va- 

 luable materials for its future elucidation. 



In intimate association with his friend M. Lartet, one of the 

 most distinguished, if not the most distinguished and accom- 

 plished, of existing Mammalian palaeontologists, and equally versed 

 in priscan archaeology, whose successful explorations at Au- 

 rignac and other places in the south of France are so well known, 

 Mr. Christy determined to follow out similar researches in other 

 promising localities in the same or adjoining districts of the 

 country. The points selected were principally on the banks of 

 the Yezere, in the Dordogne, as at Les Eyzies, Laugerie, &c. 



These explorations, which have been uninterruptedly pursued 

 uj) to the present time solely, I believe, at Mr. Christy's expense, 

 and for the most part under the personal inspection of himself 

 and his friend M. Lartet, have necessarily involved a very consi- 

 derable outlay of money and great sacrifice of time and labour — 

 all given ungrudgingly and most unselfishly by Mr. Christy. In 

 all this work and in all these sacrifices he was animated by no 



