48 BANFFSHIRE. [1836 



a speedy return to our dear and happy home. You can scarcely, 

 dear Kate, appreciate all the attractions of that delightful spot. 

 Many and many an event which from its daily and habitual 

 occurrence passed unnoticed in the pleasurable m$Ue is now, by 

 contrast with similar scenes, but scenes differently enacted, and 

 with associations totally at variance, brought to my recollection 

 with the most vivid freshness and delight. Still, Kate, not only 

 are past events productive of much pleasure, but so also are 

 those proceedings which are hourly and constantly taking place 

 in my absence, and with a brief detail of which I had hoped to 

 have been favoured rather more frequently than I have been 

 latterly. ... I shall fully expect to hear from you at Liverpool. 

 . . . With best love to all, believe me, your very affectionate 

 brother, J. PRESTWICH, Jr. 



Another paper on the Banffshire coast was written 

 after his second long tour in Scotland, and was entitled 

 " On some recent Elevations of the Coast of Banffshire, 

 and on a Deposit of Clay formerly considered to be Lias." 

 It was read at the Geological Society in 1837, and pub- 

 lished in full in 1838. 



A memoir in French, which likewise was written at 

 an earlier date, was read in the 1837-38 Session of the 

 Soeiete Geologique de France, " Sur les debris de 

 Mammiferes terrestres, qui se trouvent dans 1'argile 

 plastique aux environs d'Epernay." This paper was 

 long remembered in Paris as having given rise to an 

 important discussion, in which Constant Prevost, 

 Deshayes, Biviere, and others took part. 



A letter to his sister Kate expresses his happiness to 

 find himself again in his beloved France. 



RENNES, July 1836, Friday Evening, 10. 



At last, my dearest Kate, I am again in France: that long- 

 anticipated visit is now performed, and I enjoy it most intensely. 

 I like the country, the people, the living, and in fact I am 



