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J. Prestwich to Rev. 0. Fisher. 



21 HARBWOOD SQUARE, 19th March 1895. 



MY DEAE FISHER, How have you been all this severe winter, 

 and how are all your sons ? 



We have been spending the winter with my niece Miss Scott, 

 but intend returning home on Friday next. Both of us have 

 weathered the winter well, though it has kept me a prisoner in- 

 doors for the greater part of the time. My sisters-in-law are 

 away at Cannes, and will be away till the end of July. You 

 have of course heard of the death of poor Hulke. It was a great 

 shock to us all, and he will be greatly missed. Evans takes his 

 place as foreign secretary. What are you at work on now ? I 

 have been busy in putting some of my old papers together as 

 " Collected Papers." There will be nothing new to you in them, 

 as you had the separate copies as they came out. I have also a 

 paper for the unbelievers coming out in the ' Nineteenth Century ' 

 magazine. I fear that we shall find damage done to our shrubs 

 and trees. I hope your roses have not suffered too much. Mrs 

 Prestwich desires her very kind regards ; and believe me to be 

 very sincerely yours, JOSEPH PEESTWICH. 



While yet early in the year, four publications ap- 

 peared from the pen which had been in such constant 

 use, and which was soon to be laid aside for ever. 

 One was 'The Tradition of the Flood/ to which 

 attention has already been directed. The next was 

 the volume of ' Collected Papers on some Controverted 

 Questions of Geology/ which made subjects under dis- 

 cussion readily accessible to the reading public. A 

 reissue, with additions by the author, of the ' Water- 

 bearing Strata of the Country around London, &c./ 

 was also published, it having regard chiefly to the 

 water-supply of the great city. The fourth publication 

 was an article in the April number of the ' Nineteenth 

 Century ' magazine, " On the Greater Antiquity of 

 Man. 7 ' In this the author traced the changes of 



