Haynes.] 270 [Feb. 3, 



to the earlier stone period of prehistoric history ;" and " palaeo- 

 lithic man" is there quoted as signifying " man who lived con- 

 temporary with the extinct mammalia." Doctor Julien states that 

 he entirely agrees with my general views, but that he takes exception 

 to the closing paragraphs, viz. : " However long ago it may have 

 been in the 'dark backward and abysm of time' the palaeolithic 

 man, a savage hunter armed with his rude axe of roughly chipped 

 stone, once dwelt in the valley of the Nile as well as in that of 

 the Somme. President Warren claims to have ' a great respect 

 for the palaeolithic man,' and he can hardly find words to express 

 his admiration for the marvellous skill exhibited by him in fash- 

 ioning the ' prehistoric arrow-head.' But, unhappily, in point of 

 fact, ' the palaeolithic man' was no more capable of making a stone 

 arrow-head, than he was of building a pyramid." 



The report continues : "In reply to the statement in the last 

 sentence quoted, Doctor Julien exhibited several specimens of 

 chipped arrow-heads and lance-heads from the lowest gravels of 

 St. Acheul, one of which had been dug out before his eyes. Such 

 remains were not common, chiefly, perhaps, from the difficulty of 

 distinguishing objects of such small size, fragile nature and rude 

 type among the flint nodules ; but there were many such on exhi- 

 bition in the Museums at Abbeville and Amiens, the Blackmore 

 Museum at Salisbury, etc. There were even several arrow-heads 

 figured by Boucher de Perthes among his first finds in the first 

 volume of the " Antiquites Celtiques et Antediluviennes," 1849, 

 Plates 29 and 30, described in Chapter 19. The form of the ar- 

 row-heads was sometimes that of simple, rude flakes, slender 

 and wedge-pointed ; but a more characteristic and unmistakable 

 variety, represented by the specimens exhibited, was* heart- 

 shaped, i. e., triangular, with a basal indentation or nick. The 

 evidence M. de Perthes had brought forward and fully illustrated 

 in all the volumes of his work, of the discovery of rudely formed 

 palaeolithic knives, awls, augers, hammers, saws, etc., had been fully 

 confirmed by later examination of the oldest gravels. In the val- 

 ley of the Somme, atleast, the palaeolithic inhabitant was far more 

 than a ' savage hunter,' and found in the flint a material easily 

 chipped into many useful forms beside that of a ' rude axe of 

 roughly chipped stone.' " 



Now, I make bold to assert that Doctor Julien never saw in 

 any one of the Museums referred to by him one single specimen, 



