In  France  similar  traces  of  the  same  human  race,  and
under  the  same  conditions,  were  discovered  in  the  river
deposits  of  the  Somme  at  Amiens  and  Abbeville,  in  the
second  quartei;  of  this  century,  and  since  then  similar  dis-
coveries have  been  made  in  Southern  France.
Beferring  to  the  evidences  of  early  man  in  France,  we
should  bear  in  mind  that  Frenchmen  have  laboured  most
diligently  in  this  field  of  research.  The  first  name  that
occurs  to  us  is  that  of  M.  Boucher  de  Perthes,  in  con-
nection with  the  fiints  discovered  at  Abbeville,  and  the
MusSe  de  St.  German,  it  is  considered,  exhibits  the
implements  of  the  first  Stone  age  in  the  most  approved
method  of  arrangement.  M.  Joly,  who  has  recently
published  "  Man  before  Metals,"  in  the  "  International
Scientific  Series,"  as  far  back  as  1835,  contributed  a
paper,  which  appeared  in  the  *'  Bibliothdque  Universelle  "
of  Geneva,  in  which  he  suggested  that  man  probably
existed  in  Western  Europe  with  some  of  the  extifict
mammalia  of  the  Pleistocene  period,  deriving  his  evi-
dence from  the  exploration  of  a  bone  cave  at  Loz^re ;  his
conjectures  were  at  the  time  discountenanced,  but  he  has
lived  to  see  them  confirmed,  and  to  give  to  the  world  the
benefit  of  his  later  researches.
