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kind physician, Dr Owen Rees, declared that he was 

 suffering from " nothing but overwork." If the subjects 

 on which he was engaged could be passed under review, 

 we should only wonder that he had not altogether in- 

 capacitated himself. The Reports for the two Royal 

 Commissions were imperative, so that his own personal 

 work had for a time to be set aside. He had been 

 eagerly amassing and arranging materials for his 

 memoirs on the Crag ; besides which the Brixham 

 Cave Committee had passed a resolution that Mr 

 Brest wich should draw up the General Beport for 

 the Boyal Society, so that all the special reports 

 were one by one handed over to him. 



Letters to his attached friend, Mr William Colchester 

 of Ipswich, 1 refer to his forthcoming Crag memoir : 



J. Prestwick to W. Colchester. 



69 MARK LANE, LONDON, 23rd January 1868. 



MY DEAR COLCHESTER, My long-in-hand paper on the Crag is 

 coming on at the Geological [Society] on Febry. 26th. Although 

 my sections are numerous, I find I want some exact levels. Do 

 you know of any youth at Woodbridge or Ipswich who could run 

 a line of level from the river at Sutton, passing over the top of 

 the hill at your farm (and by the old Coralline Crag coprolite 

 pit), then by the Bullock-yard pit to the Crag pit at Shottisham 

 a day's work for 20s. to 30s. ? 



I think I must also run down again myself to see it done and 

 to visit a coprolite pit I have heard of near Orford, and which I 

 suspect to be in the Coralline Crag. My friend Jeffreys, the dis- 

 tinguished conchologist, proposes to accompany me. Are you 

 disposed to join us ? It will be for a three-days' run camping 

 out at Bawdsey and Orford. I shall want to spend an evening 

 also at Woodbridge to see Mr Whincopp. No fixed time yet. 

 With kind regards to Mrs Colchester and family, I am, very truly 

 yours, Jos. PRESTWIUH. 



1 William Colchester, born July 21, 1813 ; died November 15, 1898. 



