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two miles to Lowestoft. He never alluded to this 

 exploit without a smile. No day passed without some 

 point visited some special work accomplished. And 

 thus it was wherever he turned his footsteps. 



A note from Sir Roderick Murchison shows that, 

 although debarred by failing health from sharing in 

 public functions, the heart of the old chief was with 

 his geological brethren on their anniversary : 



SIT R. I. Murchison to J. Prestwich. 



16 BELGRAVE SQUARE, ISth February 1871. 



MY DEAR PRESTWICH, Although shut out from personal par- 

 ticipation in the affairs of the Geological Society, I cannot allow 

 the approaching anniversary to pass by without assuring you 

 that I take as lively an interest as ever in the advancement of 

 our favourite science. I rejoice above all that the Society is now 

 under your guidance, and it has of course given me great satis- 

 faction, as Director-General of the Geological Survey, to observe 

 that you have given the Wollaston Medal this year to my dis- 

 tinguished associate, Professor Eamsay. Yours ever sincerely, 



EOD. I. MURCHISON. 



If we except two sub - reports to the Hoyal Coal 

 Commission, the only publications in 1871 were his 

 Presidential Address and the memoir on " The Nor- 

 wich Crag and Westleton Beds." 



The subject chosen for his address to the Geological 

 Society was " Deep Sea Life and its Relations to 

 Geology." In this interesting essay he reviewed, 

 among others, the researches of Edward Forbes, 

 Spratt, Wallich, Carpenter, Gwyn - Jeffreys, Wy ville 

 Thomson, &c., giving lists of temperatures at depths in 

 the Atlantic and Pacific. He touched upon the circu- 

 lation of cold under-currents in the great oceans, and 

 the influence of submarine temperatures on pelagic life. 



