350 WESTLETON BEDS. [1889-90. 



and was entitled, " On the Relation of the Westleton 

 Shingle to other Pre - Glacial Drifts in the Thames 

 Basin, and on a Southern Drift, with Observations 

 on the Final Elevation and Initial Subaerial Den- 

 udation of the Weald, and on the Genesis of the 

 Thames." These three great papers were well illus- 

 trated, and they summed up the observations of many 

 years. It was an untold satisfaction to their author 

 to see them put on .record in the pages of the Journal 

 of the Geological Society. 



J. Prestwich to J. Evans. 



DARENT-HULME, SHOREHAM, 16th December [1889]. 



MY DEAR EVANS, I was looking forward to meet you on 

 Wednesday next, when I have a paper coming on ; but I 

 shall be unable to be present, I am sorry to say. This change- 

 able weather does not suit me, though I have not much to 

 complain of. This paper embraces some of my earliest notes 

 (1842-7), when the Gt. Eastern Eailway was made. I wish I 

 could have published them long ago ; but many things inter- 

 vened, and the subject was an intricate and extended one. It 

 has taken me some months to go over my old notes and put 

 the paper in ship-shape. It has not lost by waiting, though I 

 have lost some things in matters of priority. 



J. Prestwich to Sir A. Gfeikie. 



DARENT-HULME, SHOREHAM, 18th Decbr. [1889]. 



MY DEAR GEIKIE, I am very sorry not to be at Burlington 

 House this evening, when my paper is to be read. This 

 paper is in great part the result of observations made many 

 years ago, and which I should have made public long ago but 

 for the pressure of business when in the City, which only left 

 me time for nightwork, and [of] University work and ' Geology ' 

 when at Oxford. I have now commenced looking up my old 

 notes and papers, and hope yet to give many of the interesting 

 sections exposed when the Gt. Eastern and other railways were 



