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&c., remains occur in the Flint Drift as they do at Eastbourne, 

 only there it is thicker. Still, I understand Dr Ward to say 

 they were 17 feet deep at the Victoria Inn. I was only sorry 

 our excursions were so short. 



J. Prestwich to J. Evans. OXFORD, 29th November 1878. 



MY DEAR EVANS, I am very sorry I shall not be amongst you 

 to-morrow. I did not bear in mind when we formed an engage- 

 ment (a dinner-party at home) for to-morrow, that you and 

 Spottiswoode were the elected Grand Officers of the [Royal] 

 Society, or I should have tried to be present, although Saturday 

 is an awkward day the Sunday trains being slow, few, and in- 

 convenient. I shall be thinking of you to-morrow. Please tell 

 Spottiswoode of my regret, and believe me to be ever sincerely 

 yours, J. PRESTWICH. 



Rolleston gave us a paper on a Tenby Cave at the Ashmolean, 

 and I understand that Max Miiller will give a paper on 

 " Iron " - 1 suppose in relation to the Bronze Period after 

 Christmas. 



A paper published in the ' Journal of the Geological 

 Society' in 1878, touching on the range of the Palae- 

 ozoic rocks under London, was of general interest. Its 

 title is a long one : " On the Section of Messrs Meux 

 & Co.'s Artesian Well in the Tottenham Court Road, 

 with Notices of the Well at Crossness and of another at 

 Shoreham, Kent ; and on the Probable Range of the 

 Lower Greensand and Palaeozoic Rocks under London." 



