3*74 THE FLOOD. [1894. 



The energy, so far from being on a par with the present, is, I be- 

 lieve, in the cases of such eruptions as Krakatoa, greater now 

 than formerly, as I have shown in ' Geology.' 



My chronology may possibly err a little on one side (for the 

 dates are not sufficiently definite), but that of the uniformitarian 

 errs, I am satisfied, much more than the other. But this does 

 not touch the essential points of argument. I wish I could 

 write longer and more clearly, but this is one of my bad 

 days. . . . 



Sir H. D. Acland to J. Prestwich. OXFORD, Jan. 15, 1894. 



Alas ! most forgiving of friends, I cannot lay my hand on the 

 beautiful envelope directed to you at midsummer, and carried to 

 and fro per mare per terram, and not fit to send. . . . Everything 

 here is in restless movement with new-comers, and old ones who 

 take up questions new to them ; and I get disheartened at seeing 

 things knocked down from sheer want of knowing would you 

 were still with us ! 



The Home 1 for which you did so much is become a model in- 

 stitution for good and useful work, wisely devised and conducted, 

 but it needs endowment. . . . God bless you both ! Your affec- 

 tionate and grateful friend, H. D. ACLAND. 



It will have been apparent to the reader that in 

 amassing the evidence for his Submergence paper, 

 Joseph Prestwich, without having it in view, was 

 struck by the fact that his theory of a wide-spread 

 submergence upheld the Biblical record of the Flood. 

 Once that the idea dawned upon him he was fascinated, 

 and sought out all the physical evidence that could be 

 adduced in support of it. Early in 1894 he sent in a 

 paper on the subject to the Victoria Institute, entitled, 

 " A Possible Cause for the Origin of the Tradition of the 

 Flood," which, as he was unable to be present, was read 

 by his old friend Professor Rupert Jones, F.R.S. It 



1 The Acland Memorial Home for Nurses, Oxford. 



