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To the Same. OXFORD, 27th May. 



The main point of my paper was, I think, missed the other 

 night. It was not the question whether long or short time was 

 required for the Pleistocene phenomena, but whether the now 

 known ice - conditions of Greenland did not warrant some 

 material change from the Alpine data of Croll and others. With 

 our united kind regards, I am, sincerely yours, 



JOSEPH PKESTWICH. 



J. Prestwich to Professor Jules Marcou. OXFORD, 15th Sept. 1887. 



MY DEAR MARCOU, In reply to your inquiry, I am glad to 

 say I can report favourably of myself as to health. It is on the 

 score of years that I resign the Professorship here and retire to 

 my old home at Shoreham, where I shall be more at leisure to 

 work up the notes of the past years relating to the Quaternary 

 and Glacial Period. 



I should have taken this step a year or two ago, but that I 

 wished to finish Vol. II. of my ' Geology ' before I left. This I 

 hope to do by the end of the year, until which time I hold the 

 chair and have my work done by deputy. I had no conception 

 the work would have taken so long. It is now more than 10 

 years since I undertook it. 



The Taconic question much perplexed me, not knowing the 

 ground. I have devoted a short space to it, and I hope I have 

 given a fair re'sume'. You will see. It was very pleasant to 

 have news of you, though I wish you could have given a better 

 report of yourself. I am glad, however, to find you are busy 

 with good geological work, and do hope you will be present with 

 us next year to take part in the Geological Congress. I have 

 just sent you a short paper on the Glacial question, which will, 

 I expect, provoke discussion. Mrs Prestwich desires her kind 

 regards, and I am, sincerely yours, JOSEPH PRESTWICH. 



The final move from Oxford was made in the end 

 of September, Professor I. Bayley Balfour, 1 F.R.S., 



1 Then Professor of Botany in Oxford, now Professor of Botany in the 

 University of Edinburgh, eminent for his knowledge of the fossil flora of 

 successive epochs. 



