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knowledge of the geological structure of the London 

 basin. Dr G. Owen Hees, 1 his friend from boyhood, 

 was a frequent companion in these Saturday and Sun- 

 day walks, when he often laughingly declared that 

 Joseph always starved him. The same complaint was 

 made in after years by one or two other friends, who 

 grumbled at the hard and scant fare, yet who were 

 always eager to accompany him. One in especial was 

 Edward I'Anson, 2 the eminent architect, whose wife 

 was Catherine, the second daughter of Mr John Blake- 

 way, the uncle of our geologist. They had been brought 

 up together as children nay, as infants (having been 

 near neighbours), and throughout life they remained 

 the same attached friends. When veterans with a long 

 retrospect of years, it was touching to hear them ad- 

 dress each other as "Edward" and "Joseph," which 

 they did to the last. Hees told humorous anecdotes of 

 their geological adventures. Once, late on a Saturday 

 night, the two young men arrived at a village inn not 

 far from Prestwich's future home, and asked for quar- 

 ters. Dusty and worn, and in clothing not improved 

 from visits to pits, and one of them probably with a 

 rough bag of fossils and sundry specimens of clay or 

 gravel slung over his shoulders, they were looked upon 

 as suspicious characters, and refused admittance ; so 

 they had nothing for it but to trudge on several miles 

 in the dark to a more hospitable house, which was not 

 reached until midnight. 



When the family in 1830 were at Boulogne for the 

 holidays, we hear that Joseph took his brother Edward, 

 a boy of ten, to inspect certain quarries which were 



1 G. Owen Rees, M.D. ; born in 1813, died 1889. 



2 Edward I'Anson, F.G.S., President of the Royal Institute of British 

 Architects ; born in 1812, died in 1888. 



