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esting home of the latter, which is practically a museum 

 crowded with archaeological and antiquarian riches, and 

 where our geologist was a frequent guest. He notes, 

 " June 7, 1868. To Kings Langley, thence with J. E. 

 to Colney Street." 



In July Devizes and Frome were the centres for ex- 

 ploration, and in August Professor Morris accompanied 

 him to another old haunt Grays Thurrock, the attrac- 

 tion there being a new section, of which several sketches 

 are given, and in which he discriminates that "these 

 gravels seem derived direct from the high-level gravels, 

 and are not like those in adjoining pits." 



But the field work for this year was not yet over, 

 as in October he was hard at work in the coal-field of 

 Bristol and Radstock, with the geology of which he 

 was well acquainted. 



Early in January 1869 the final move was made to 

 the house at Shoreham, which was called " Darent- 

 Hulme " Hulme being in remembrance of the old family 

 place in Lancashire. Instead of merely a cottage for 

 summer sojourn, it was henceforward to be Prestwich's 

 home, the bulky collections of fossils, minerals, and 

 flint implements filling every available corner. The 

 season was midwinter, but he was eager to be on the 

 spot, ready to watch the first promise of spring. Ter- 

 race walks had been cut on the steep chalk slope, and 

 other paths devised, which were concealed from one 

 another by intercepting shrubberies. The pyramid and 

 cordon fruit-trees came from the nursery-gardens near 

 Paris, and indoors as well as out-of-doors there were 

 numerous reminders of France. 



On January 15 Prestwich was elected a member of 

 the American Philosophical Society, an honour which 

 he greatly prized. 



