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"A human head, Uncle!" I said, no less amazed and stupefied than himself. "Yes, nephew. Ah! Mr. Milne-Edwards--ah! Mr. De Quatrefages--why are you not here where I am--I, Professor Hardwigg!" CHAPTER 35 DISCOVERY UPON DISCOVERY In order fully to understand the exclamation made by my uncle, and his allusions to these illustrious and learned men, it will be necessary to enter into certain explanations in regard to a circumstance of the highest importance to paleontology, or the science of fossil life, which had taken place a short time before our departure from the upper regions of the earth. On the 28th of March, 1863, some navigators under the direction of M. Boucher de Perthes, were at work in the great quarries of Moulin-Quignon, near Abbeville, in the department of the Somme, in Fr