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no sooner had they reached Christchurch than he was 

 overtaken by illness. His friend Evans took him back 

 to town in an invalid carriage, where at Park Crescent 

 he was nursed with devoted care by his sisters-in-law, 

 until able at Oxford to rejoin his wife, who had been 

 detained there by her own illness. 



J. Prestwich to J. Evans. OXFORD, 27th April. 



MY DEA.R EVANS, Dr Acland has put a stop to my going to 

 town this week, so, much to my regret, I shall miss both the 

 Geological] meeting and the Eoyal Society Soiree. Please express 

 my regrets to Spottiswoode at my absence from the latter. . . . 

 I am sorry also to miss Hulke's paper and the Council. ... I 

 am very glad to see that Dr Eae is amongst the chosen 15. 1 . . . 



A more detailed account of the position of the strata 

 in which a new species of Iguanodon had been discov- 

 ered in a brick-pit in the Kimmeridge Clay at Cum- 

 nor Hurst, near Oxford, and named by Mr Hulke, 

 Iguanodon Prestwchii, was read in April to the 

 Geological Society. In May of the previous year 

 Prestwich had sent a brief announcement of this dis- 

 covery, with " Notice also of a very Fossiliferous Band 

 of the Shotover Sands," to the c Geological Magazine.' 



Early in May the death of his brother-in-law, Mr 

 Russell Scott, was a real sorrow. In a letter to a fre- 

 quent correspondent he expresses a deep sense of his 

 loss, and that Russell Scott " was one of the best and 

 kindest of husbands and of friends." He was the last 

 of his three brothers-in-law, who had all shown him 

 sincere affection, the close intimacy with Mr Russell 

 Scott having endured almost half a century. It has 

 often occurred to us that much of that happiness in the 



1 Fifteen names of candidates selected for election into the Eoyal Society. 



