278 BRITISH ASSOCIATION. [l878. 



Prestwich had invited his old friend Mr George 

 Busk, 1 the distinguished surgeon and anthropologist, 

 to be one of the party : 



G. Busk to J. Prestwich. 32 HARLEY STREET, March 28, 1878. 



MY DEAR PKESTWICH, I have taken two or three days to 

 think the matter over, and though sorely tempted, feel that it will 

 be better that I should not attempt to join your party at Easter. 

 The party and the route are equally tempting, and I should have 

 been much delighted to visit Toulouse. ... I am above measure 

 delighted, however, to find that you are so well as to induce Mrs 

 Prestwich to allow you to go. Pray give her our kindest re- 

 gards. Believe me, yours very truly, GEO. BUSK. 



Before starting on this Easter trip, Prestwich was 

 made a livery-man of the City of London, having been 

 elected a member of the Turners' Company. 



On the 8th of April a letter was received from the 

 General Secretary of the British Association (Captain 

 Douglas Galton) requesting Prestwich to allow himself 

 to be put in nomination for the office of President of the 

 British Association Meeting for 1879. He was much 

 gratified, yet felt it his duty to decline the honour. 

 He was living at far too high pressure, and decided to 

 accept no office nor duties which would abstract time 

 from his own science. 



A few days later he set out for Bordeaux, Toulouse, 

 &c., with " Evans, Galton, and Hughes, Smyth joining 

 for three days at Bayonne." An extract is given from 

 a letter to his wife from Paris, to which he travelled 

 with Professor Hughes :- 



We arrived here in due course, and by 7.30 we were comfort- 

 ably at dinner in the Corazza Cafe in the Palais Eoyal. Evans 



George Busk, born 1807 ; died 1886. 



