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having most kindly undertaken to give the Geological 

 Class lectures for the last term of the year. 



J. Prestwich to Rev. 0. Fisher. OXFORD, 2Qth Novbr. 1887. 



MY DEAE FISHER, Thanks for the paper announcing your 

 conversion to Inter-Glacial Man. With such a lead it is quite 

 possible I may follow, and I am the more anxious to see the 

 ground. Such a discovery will throw quite a new light on the 

 subject. I see also by the Brit. Assoc. report that Skertchly 

 makes out a good case, inasmuch as the overlie of the Boulder 

 Clay in the several sections he gives is sufficient and distinct. 

 Still I reserve my opinion till I see the ground, although I am 

 quite prepared to accept the conclusion. 1 



In a letter to Mr Evans, dated 2nd December, he 

 remarks : 



Owing to a delay with the map, Vol. II. will, I regret to say, 

 not be out till middle of January. ... I have had some very 

 kind letters from Judd, Bonney, Blanford, and Topley, asking 

 me to accept the Presidency of the Geological Congress. I would 

 much rather work in quiet as an ordinary member, and others 

 would, I know, make much better Presidents. I don't like to 

 decline, yet don't care to accept. So I ask my old friend's and 

 counsellor's advice. . . . 



The honourable post so kindly urged upon Prestwich 

 was accepted, and, as it proved, the meeting of the 

 International Geological Congress in London in the 

 following September was a signal success. 



The close occupation of seeing the proofs of Vol. II. of 

 ' Geology ' through the press did not prevent the pro- 

 duction of another important paper to the Geological 

 Society, which was read on 21st December and pub- 



1 The evidence still wanted is the finding of an undoubted palaeolithic 

 implement in the brick-earth or other deposit, beneath an undisturbed 

 mass of the chalky Boulder Clay ; and later observations render such a 

 discovery improbable. 



