354 THE SOLENT RIVER. [1891. 



The title of the paper was, " On the Age, Formation, 

 and Successive Drift - stages of the Valley of the 

 Darent ; with Hemarks on the Palaeolithic Implements 

 of the District, and on the Origin of its Chalk Escarp- 

 ment." The sections and map of the Darent basin 

 illustrating this paper were, as usual, of the clearest, 

 telling their story at a glance. 



J. Prestwich to J. Evans. 



21 PARK CRESCENT, 14A February 1891. 



MY DEAR EVANS, You have been much in our minds, and we 

 thought of what a pleasant time you [were having] in Sicily and 

 Greece ; but I understand you did not escape the bad weather we 

 had here, although with you it was rain, while with us it was 

 snow. My paper was read at the meeting before the last, and I 

 gave my final views about the age of the plateau specimens. 

 Having given the geological evidence, I think it will be well 

 now to give the anthropological side of the question, with a good 

 series of illustrations in the style of PI. II. in your ' Stone Imple- 

 ments.' I have spoken to [E. B.] Tylor about it, and will see about 

 arranging specimens for the Anthropological Institute. 



I hope you will have something to tell me about the Sicilian 

 caves. I fear, though, that you had little time for geology. Much 

 hoping to see you soon. . . . 



To the Same. LONDON, 27<A March [1891]. 



MY DEAR EVANS, ... I fear you are having very unpleasant 

 weather for your visit to the South Coast. If you have time and 

 opportunity, I wish you would look again to see whether you can 

 find any better arguments than have yet been adduced in support 

 of an old Solent river. 1 I wish I could go over the ground again 

 myself with you. I am glad to say I am now down -stairs 

 again, and have just finished the proofs of my Darent Valley 

 paper. . . . 



1 Prestwich's observations on " The Solent Eiver " were printed in the 

 Geological Magazine for 1898, p. 349. 



