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a communication to the Academy of Sciences through 
M. Elie de Beaumont, in which he urged the importance of 
these discoveries, and expressed a hope that they would 
stimulate " les geologues de tous les pays a 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 statements made by 
M. Boucher de Perthes, led others "to visit the valley of the 
Somme, among whom I may mention M.M. de Quatrefages, 
Lartet, Collomb, Hebert, de Verneuil, and G. Pouchet. 
In the "Antiquites Celtiques," M. Boucher de Perthes 
suggested some gravel pits near Grenelle at Paris, as being, 
from their position and appearance, likely places to contain 
flint implements. M. Gosse, of Geneva, has actually found 
flint implements in these pits, being, I believe, the first 
discovery of this nature in the valley of the Seine. In that 
of the Oise a small hatchet has been found by M. Peigne* 
Delacourt at Precy, near Creil. Dr. Noulet has also found 
flint weapons with remains of extinct animals at Clermont, 
near Toulouse. Nor have these discoveries been confined to 
France. There has long been in the British Museum a rude 
stone weapon, described as follows : — " No. 246. A British 
weapon, found with elephant's tooth, opposite to black Mary's, 
near Grayes inn lane. Conyers. It is a large black flint, 
shaped into the figure of a spear's point." Mr. Evans tells 
us, moreover, (1. c. p. 22) "that a rude engraving of it 
illustrates a letter on the Antiquities of London, by Mr. 
Bagford, dated 1715, printed in Hearne's edition of Leland's 
Collectanea, Vol. I. 6. p. lxiii. From his account it seems to 
have been found with a skeleton of an elephant in the presence 
