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antiquity of the human race which the early fossil flint-implements evoked, 

 gave him justly the leadership of British antiquaries in this warfare against 

 deeply -rooted prejudices and inculcated opinions, in the same way as Mr. 

 Prestwich took the lead amongst British geologists ; and, as we look to the 

 latter for the narration and reduction of new geological facts, we look to 

 receive from the former periodically the antiquarian view of all fresh de- 

 tails and novelties. We do not propose to use our pages, in expressing 

 our sense of the valuable services rendered by Mr. Evans, however justly 

 such encomiums may be due, but we prefer to economize our space by 

 giving \\ithout comment a summary of the " finds " not hitherto recorded 

 or but slightly noticed in this journal, and noting the chief topics in this 

 addition to his former excellent paper in the ' Archaeologia' of 1860, and 

 which has been noticed by us, Yol. lY. p. 358. 



Paris. — Flint-implements have been found by M. Gosse, of Greneva. 

 The pits in which they were discovered are two, — that of M. Bernard, 

 Avenue de la Motte Piquet, ISo. 61-63 (Champ de Mars), and that of M. 

 Etienne Bielle, Eue de Grenelle, No. 15 ; in beds of sand and- gravel ana- 

 logous to those of Mencliecourt, near Abbeville ; the beds are not dis- 

 turbed, their average thickness is 20 feet. The implements and flint-flakes 

 were found in a bed at the base of the gravel from 3 to 5 inches in thick- 

 ness, associated with bones Bos primigenius, lilephas p^nmigenius, deer 

 allied to reindeer, and a large carnivorous animal, probably cave-tiger. 

 These observations have been confirmed by M. Lartet and Mr. Mjdne. 

 This place was signalized as a probable locality previous to M. Gosse's 

 discovery by M. Boucher de Perthes. At Clichy, also, one implement has 

 been found by M. Lartet. 



Creil. — A flint-implement {Jiacliette) has been found, under similar cir- 

 cumstances, in a gravel-pit at Precy, near Creil, in the A'^alley of the Oise 

 (between Amiens and Paris), with a tooth of an elephant. iExhibited to 

 the French Society of Antiquaries, 16th May, 1860, by M. Peigne Dela- 

 court. 



Bouen. — The Abbe Cochet reports two flint-implements in the museum 

 there, which the curator, M. Pottier, states to have come from the sand- 

 pits of Sotteville in the neighbourhood. This requires confirmation, as 

 Mr. Evans could not find these implements in the museum, and M. 

 Pouchet, the director, was not aware of their existence. Mr. Evans 

 states however the pits at Sotteville to be of "precisely the character 

 that renders it probable that flint-implements may be discovered in them," 



Clermont. — In a valley leading into that of the Ariege, there is a de- 

 posit of gravel underlying brick-earth, at 540 feet above sea-level and 33 

 feet above the stream which now waters the valley. In this gravel, mixed 

 with bones of Elephas primigenius, Rhinoceros ticJiorJiinus , Felis spelcea, 

 Cervus megaceros, Eqiius, and Bos, have been found manufactured " pieces 

 of quartzite." Dr. Noulet says, " One of them is 4 inches in length, 2\ inches 

 wide, and its greatest thickness 1 inch. It has been formed into shape by 

 chipping it on only one of its faces. The second is much more important ; 

 both its faces have been modified to bring it to the shape it now pre- 

 sents. The side and point, which is truncated, present a bevelled edge ; 

 but the base, which is cut obliquely, has evidently been polislied even with 

 care. This is also about 4 inches long, 2| inches wide, and 1^ inch thick."* 

 Mr. Evans passes a comment on this statement. " If it be," he says, 



* See also an account of a veiy curious discovery, somewhat of the same nature, iu 

 M. Lartet's ' Researches respecting the Co-existence of Man with the Great Fossil Mam- 

 maha,' in the Ann. des Sciences Naturelles, 4th ser., torn. xv. 



