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other to Mr Rose, 1 to each of whom I sent about 50 or 60 chalk 

 fossils. My father came : he told me that Meredith had sent 

 me some fossils from Lyme Eegis. . . . 



With the practice of rigid, and to us painful, econo- 

 mies, it must not be thought that young Prestwich was 

 parsimonious or illiberal. His nature was the very 

 reverse : he was generous to a fault ; and although 

 throughout life it was a principle with him to exercise 

 strict economy in his own personal expenditure, we 

 believe it was carried out to enable him to spend more 

 upon others. Deeds of unselfish kindness, involving on 

 his part no little self-denial perhaps known only to 

 the writer cannot be spoken of; to do so would be a 

 violation of his wishes. In later years we come upon a 

 touching letter from one who was a stranger, saying 

 that he had the undying gratitude of a family for his 

 generosity in saving one member of it from disgrace 

 which would have overwhelmed one and all. The cir- 

 cumstances were made known to Joseph Prestwich, and 

 although a stranger, and his income at the time circum- 

 scribed, he at once came forward with a sum of money 

 which the family was unable to provide, and which he 

 gave unreservedly. Acts such as these were unknown 

 to the world. 



An example of young Prestwich's patient industry is 

 shown in a quarto volume of MS. in his handwriting, 

 giving copies of geological papers and their accompany- 

 ing illustrations from the ' Transactions of the Geologi- 

 cal Society,' the ' Magazine of Natural History/ the 

 ' Annals of Philosophy,' and the ' Edinburgh New 

 Philosophical Journal.' He was thus enabled to study 

 memoirs by Englefield, Sedgwick, Buckland, Webster, 

 &c., whose writings he could not then afford to pur- 



1 C. B. Rose, F.R.C.S., F.G.S., of Swaffham; born 1790, died 1872. 



