Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Perthes, Boucher be Ceevecceue de (1788-1868), anthropologist, resided principally at Abbeville. His first work De la Creation (published 1839-41) was followed by Antiquites Celtiques et Antediluviennes and De VHomme Antediluvien. In 1863 he discovered a fossil human jaw-bone near Abbeville.