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one knows how much she was to me in early life," was 

 his remark in a note to a friend. Thus for a time 

 the serene happiness of his home was overclouded. 



In the autumn of 1894, under Prestwich's personal 

 supervision, Professor Rupert Jones prepared a paper, 

 with diagrams, treating of the plateau implements, 

 their position below the surface, and the derivation of 

 the gravelly deposits in which they occur, from the 

 Chalk capping the Wealden area when it existed as 

 part of a range at least 2000 feet high. This paper 

 was read before a combined meeting of the Anthropo- 

 logical and Geological sections of the British Association 

 on August 10, 1894, and published in ' Natural Science/ 

 vol. v. pp. 269-275. In it occurs the appropriate 

 remark that " it must have been a great pleasure to 

 the veteran geologist, Professor Dr Prestwich, to find 

 that his conclusions (in 1890) as to the Pliocene 

 Tertiaries and Gravels on the flanks of the diminishing 

 island of the Weald fitted so truly, as consecutive 

 history, with his early views (1847) of the probable 

 conditions of the Wealden dome in Eocene times." 



The letter from Canon Greenwell, a leading author- 

 ity on the subject of flint implements, gives his opinion 

 of the plateau implements : 



Canon Greenwell to J. Prestwich. DURHAM, 29th Sept. 1894. 



MY DEAR SIR, I am obliged for your paper on the " Flints of 

 the Chalk Plateau," which 1 read when it appeared in the Jour- 

 nal. I have no objection to your using my name in the reissue 

 as a believer in the manufacture, by some reasoning creature, of 

 the flints in question. 



With regard to when they were made, though, so far as I can 

 judge, from the observation of others, they appear to belong to 

 a time anterior to that which produced the ordinary Drift im- 



