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Few men who have engaged successfully in commerce for nearly half a century have achieved so distinguished a position in the world of science as Sir John Evans. Indeed, it may be said that his keen intellect, which enabled him to excel in business affairs, also gave him enormous advantages in pursuing those branches of natural knowledge to the investigation of which he has devoted his long life and his remarkable abilities, ever combining “science with practice”. His powers of observation have always been singularly acute, and the writer recalls vividly a walk across the open country in Hertfordshire years ago, in his company, with Professor Boyd Dawkins and the late W. Ayshford Sanford and being struck with the rapidity with which John Evans's well-trained eye detected a flint implement on the stony surface of a stubble-field, overlooked by the rest of the party.
page 2 note 1 Evans, , “Stone Implements,” 1872, pp. 521–2Google Scholar.
page 2 note 2 See “Flint Implements from the Drift,” 1859; also Geologist, 1861, vol. iv, pp. 20–1Google Scholar.
page 2 note 3 Geol. Mag., 1902, pp. 116–117.
page 3 note 1 The discussion of the various discoveries relating to prehistoric times, and the antiquity of the human race and the evidence bearing upon it, will be found in a long series of admirable Presidential Addresses to the British Association, Ethnological Section, Liverpool, 1870Google Scholar; to the Geological Section, Dublin, 1878Google Scholar; to the Anthropological Section, Leeds, 1890Google Scholar; as President of the British Association, Toronto, 1897–1898; in 1861 in a lecture to working men at the Southampton Meeting; in an address to the Watford Natural History Society, 8th February, 1877; and as President of the Geological Society, 19th February, 1875. For an account of the flint implements in the Drift, see Archæologia, 1860 and 1862. There is an admirable paper on Bone and Cave-deposits of the Reindeer Period in the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1864, p. 444 (abstract), and Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ, 1875, p. 161 seq., and the subject is fully treated in Sir John Evans's “Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain,” 8vo (1872, and 2nd edition, 1897)Google Scholar.
page 5 note 1 See Geol. Mag., 1884, ProfessorDames, on Archœopteryx, pp. 418–424, Pl. XIVGoogle Scholar.
page 5 note 2 Geol. Mag., 1866, pp. 171–174, 183–185; 1877, p. 219.
page 6 note 1 See his second Presidential Address to the Geological Society (Geol. Mag., 1876, pp. 185–186).