270 MESSRS. PRESTWICH AND EVANS. 



Shortly afterwards Mr. Prestwich returned to Amiens and 

 Abbeville, accompanied by Messrs. Godwin- Austen, J. W. 

 Flower, and R. W. Mylne, and in the same year Sir Charles 

 Lyell visited the now celebrated localities. In 1860 I made 

 my first visit with Mr. Busk and Captain Galton, under the 

 guidance of Mr. Prestwich, while Sir Roderick Murchison, 

 Professors Henslow, Ramsay, Rogers, Messrs, H. Christy, 

 Rupert Jones, James Wyatt, and other geologists, followed 

 on the same errand. M. L'Abbe Cochet, therefore, in his 

 " Rapport adresse a Monsieur le Senateur Prefet de la Seine- 

 Inferieure" (1860), does no more than justice to our coun- 

 trymen, when after a well-merited tribute of praise to M. 

 Boucher de Perthes and Dr. Rigollot, he adds, " Mais ce sont 

 les Geologues Anglais, en tete desquels il faut placer d'abord 

 MM, Prestwich et Evans . . . . qui .... ont fini par elever a 

 la dignite de fait scientifique la decouverte de M. Boucher 

 de Perthes." 



Soon after his return, Mr. Prestwich addressed a commu- 

 nication to the Academy of Sciences, through M. Elie de 

 Beaumont, in which he urged the importance of these dis- 

 coveries, and expressed a hope that they would stimulate 

 "les geologues de tous les pays & une etude encore plus 

 approfondie des terrains quaternaires." The subject being 

 thus brought prominently before the geologists of Paris, 

 M. Gaudry, well known for his interesting researches in 

 Greece, was sent to examine the weapons themselves, and 

 the localities in which they were found. 



M. Gaudry was so fortunate as to find several flint weapons 

 in situ, and his report, which entirely confirmed the state- 

 ments made by M. Boucher de Perthes, led others to visit 

 the valley of the Somme, among whom I may mention MM. 

 de Quatrefages, Lartet, Collomb, Hebert, de Yerneuil, and 

 G. Pouchet. 



In the "Antiquites Celtiques," M. Boucher de Perthes 



