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lished early in the following year, entitled, " Further 

 Observations on the Correlation of the Eocene Strata 

 in England, Belgium, and the North of France." 



The publication in January 1888 of Vol. II. of 

 ' Geology ' was a great satisfaction and relief, as it set 

 its author free to turn to his notes and collections of 

 rocks, fossils, and worked flints. His interest in Mr 

 Harrison's discoveries of rude flint implements on the 

 high plateaus of the surrounding Kentish hills was not 

 less keen, but the season rendered it impossible for him 

 to explore at the time their different localities. Several 

 winter months were spent at 21 Park Crescent with 

 his sisters-in-law, where note-books were studied and 

 digested, and weighty papers planned. 



C. Pritchard l to J. Prestwich. 



UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY, OXFORD, 22nd Febry. 1888. 



MY DEAR PRESTWICH, Your grand vol. arrived here at 9 A.M., 

 and by 10.10 was cut open to the very Index. 



It creates many thoughts. 



1st. Thanks for the kind remembrance, carrying me back 

 many days amid old reminiscences of some half century wellnigh. 

 How heartily I congratulate you on finishing the work of your 

 life as you have done. 



I congratulate you also on the fair fame and pleasant memory 

 you leave behind you here. You may leave this earth thankful 

 for your career as one who has left the world (or will have left) 

 wiser for your work therein. God be thanked, say I, for you. 



I am glad to see that our Press has done itself justice, and has 

 been liberal in the getting up of your great work. 



How many old faces I recognised in the plates and woodcuts 

 many of them handled, too, by me, but not studied as I could 

 desire. 



I delight to find you put a reasonable interpretation on the 



1 Kev. Charles Pritchard, F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Astronomy at 

 Oxford ; born Feb. 29, 1808 ; died May 28, 1893. 



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