310 BRITISH ASSOCIATION. [l880. 



were sketched of it and of Brook Cliff, likewise of Brix- 

 ton Cliff. 



The annexed letter explains in his own words the 

 object of his journey to the Channel Islands : 



J. Prestwich to J. Evans. SHOREHAM, SEVENOAKS, 24eA August 1880. 



MY DEAR EVANS, . . . We returned from the Channel 

 Islands and France on 'Saturday night last, all the better for 

 our trip, and with evidence which satisfies me with respect to 

 the diluvial origin of a portion of the Drift which I have so 

 long suspected, but hesitated to bring forward without the fur- 

 ther proof I went to the Channel Islands to obtain. I have now 

 no longer any doubt about it ; and, as I should much like to have 

 a discussion of the subject on the occasion of Eamsay's being 

 President, British Association, I have written to Sorby (not 

 knowing who the Secretaries are) to ask whether I am too late, 

 and offering to have a paper and sections ready by Monday if 

 they can give me room on that day. I think I shall be able to 

 show that a deluge spread over part of England and much (if 

 not all) Europe in late Quaternary times, and that it destroyed 

 palaeolithic man (in part). It approaches, in fact, singularly 

 near to the tradition of the Noachian deluge. This is between 

 ourselves. 



Not expecting to go to Swansea, I have kept none of the 

 papers giving particulars of sections, &c. Could you kindly 

 send me any such lists to-morrow ? I fear, from what you say, 

 that you will have left Swansea before we arrive on Saturday. 

 I would have gone to-day, but have my paper and sections to 

 get ready, and we are a little done up by a somewhat rapid 

 journey. . . . You have a delightful journey before you in 

 Spain and south of France. Hoping that you and Mrs Evans 

 will enjoy it much, and with our united kind regards, I am, 

 sincerely yours, JOSEPH PRESTWICH. 



The main paper I reserve for the Eoyal Society. I shall now 

 merely give the chief results, so as to obtain a discussion of the 

 subject. 



