PROcks-YERBAUX. 
453 
M. Falconer depose ensuite sur le bureau la declaration suivante. 
“ I am of opinion that the finding of the human jaw at Moulin- 
“ Quignon is authentic ; but that the characters which it presents 
“ taken in connexion with the conditions under which it lay are not 
“ consistent with the said jaw being of any very great antiquity. (53.) 
(Signe) “ H. Falconer. 
“ Abbeville, 13 Mai, 1863.” 
Les membres de la reunion remercient M. le President de 
l’impartialite avec laquelle il a dirige leurs travaux et ils le prient 
de vouloir bien rendre compte des resultats de cette enquete a 
1’Academie. 
Ont signe, 
A titre de membres du congres: 
MM. Falconer. 
Prestwich. 
Busk:. 
DE QUATREEAGES. 
Desnoyers. 
Lartet. 
Delesse. 
Milne-Edwards, President. 
Comme temoins appelles a prendre part a 1*enquete : 
MM. L’Abbe Bourgeois. 
Gaudry. 
Delanoue. 
Garrigou. 
Alphonse Milne-Edwards. 
La Seance est levee a lOh. 30m. 
Milne-Edwards, President. 
Delesse, Secretaire. 
NOTES, Ac. 
As already stated, no short-hand writer was present at the sittings to take down 
in extenso the remarks of the different speakers. During the first three meetings 
held in Paris, and at which alone he was present, (having been prevented from 
proceeding to Abbeville by official duties which required his return to London,) 
Dr. Carpenter, at the desire of Dr. Falconer and Mr. Busk, and with the concurrence 
of M. Delesse, took copious notes of the debates. This was the more necessary, 
as the remarks made by some of the members were occasionally expressed in 
English. Of the running commentary which follows, the portions copied from 
Dr. Carpenter’s original notes are authenticated with his initials. The rest, being 
either in explanation or amplification of the record given in the “proces verbaux ,” 
bear the initials of Mr. Busk or of Dr. Falconer. 
Note 1.—Scales not absolutely deficient, but less numerous and less perfectly 
preserved. (W. B. C.) 
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