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CHAPTER VIII. 



1870-1874. 



MARRIAGE VISIT TO PARIS ITALY RETIREMENT FROM 

 THE CITY AIX - LES - BAINS PROFESSORSHIP OF 

 GEOLOGY AT OXFORD. 



ON the 26th February 1870 Mr Prestwich's marriage 

 took place at St Marylebone Church, London, with 

 Grace Anne, eldest daughter of James Milne, Esq., J.P., 

 Findhorn, Morayshire, and widow of George M'Call, 

 Esq., Glasgow. She was the niece of his lamented 

 friend Hugh Falconer, at whose house they had met. 



Before proceeding to Italy, Mr and Mrs Prestwich 

 spent a short time in Paris, taking a thorough holiday. 

 Several of Moliere's plays were then on the stage, and 

 as our geologist had a keen appreciation of good French 

 acting, frequent visits were paid to the Theatre Fran- 

 ais, and also to the Opera Comique. With boyish 

 zest he viewed the popular sights in Paris, and it 

 would have astonished the members of the Geological 

 Society not a little could they have seen their grave 

 President standing with his wife on a bench in the 

 thick of the voluble French crowd, straining and eager 

 for a good view of the procession of the Bceuf Gras. It 

 was a reminder of schoolboy days. 



