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to London the very day of the fog, leaving Shoreham in bright 

 sunshine and coming in for four days' night here. I had hoped to 

 have been at the meeting on the 23rd, but was afraid to face the 

 fog and cold. Paris with its clear atmosphere is very enjoyable 

 at the time of the New Year. 



I have just sent in a paper to the Society, which I have had 

 long in hand. Of the facts I am pretty sure, but I hesitated 

 long about the conclusions, which are not free from difficulty. 

 I hope it may come on while you are still in office. It is a long 

 tale, but it has been one of much interest to me, and will not, I 

 hope, shock my younger colleagues too much. Hoping you and 

 Lady Geikie are well, and with our united kind regards and best 

 wishes for the New Year, I am, sincerely yours, 



JOSEPH PRESTWICH. 



J. Prestwich to Sir J. Evans. LONDON, I47t Jany. 1892. 



MY DEAR EVANS, You will remember that in our long walks 

 years ago I always expressed an opinion that the surface of the 

 land seemed to me to show the effects of water-action inde- 

 pendently of snow or ice action, but I was not able to give proofs 

 in support of my opinion. Last summer I was so much of a 

 prisoner that I had leisure to work up all my old notes of years 

 past, which have given me an amount of evidence sufficient to 

 satisfy me that the South of England was submerged at a very 

 late geological period. This I have embodied in a paper, neces- 

 sarily long, in consequence of the number of the facts, and have 

 sent it in to the Geological Society. It is to be read on the 10th 

 Feb. I hope you will be able to be present either to criticise 

 or to support. I know I shall be considered very heterodox, but 

 it is not a hasty opinion ; I see no other solution of the problem, 

 and fortunately I am not fettered about things possible and 

 impossible. . . 



To the Same. LONDON, 23rd February [1892], 



MY DEAR EVANS, I much doubt whether I shall be able to be 

 present to-morrow. I have been out to-day for the first time, but 

 do not feel up to much. I do not expect my views to be ac- 



