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“ He devoted himself to accumulating what became the "Abbott Collection" of Eastern North American antiquities, numbering more than 20,000 specimens, composed principally of stone implements used by the prehistoric races, now at the Peabody museum and which was the outcome of fifteen years' work. He announced the discovery of Paleolithic man in America in 1876, and his claim was violently opposed by all the geologists in the country, but the view as originally set forth by Mr. Abbott became generally accepted by competent authorities, both in Europe and America. ”

“ As early as 1859 he contributed brief zoological sketches and then more elaborate essays to periodicals in England and the United States, and other articles purely literary, his magazine work covering more than one hundred titles from 1870 to 1895. ”