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by Lady Bamsay, widow of the geologist, may be given 

 as an example of many : 



I think I remember telling you when you married that your 

 husband stood on the highest pinnacle of our love and esteem, 

 and those words are as true now as ever, but to those feelings I 

 have now to add the deep grief of parting with, it seems to me, 

 the one last link to the dear old set and the never-forgotten old 

 times, and that parting, the loss of the sweetest, most courteous 

 and high-minded and lovable gentleman of my acquaintance. . . . 

 The memory of dear Sir Joseph will be " sadly kept " as long as 

 I remember anything. 



The Master of Pembroke College (Professor Bar- 

 tholomew Price), who so recently passed away, also 

 gave his testimony : 



Very many friends and admirers of Sir Joseph Prestwich are 

 grieving with you : they feel that geological science has lost the 

 foremost of its able students, and that a man great in all respects 

 has fallen from among them. 



M. Gaudry, the distinguished palaeontologist, wrote : 



Je suis tres afflige d'apprendre la mort de mon illustre con- 

 frere, Sir Joseph Prestwich. Non seulement c'etait un des plus 

 grands geologues de notre epoque, mais ainsi c'e'tait un homme 

 d'un si beau caractere, que tout le monde 1'aimait. Le chagrin 

 des savants anglais sera partage par les savants fran^ais, qui 

 avaient pour Sir Joseph la plus profonde estime. . . . L'Institut 

 de France et la Societe ge"ologique vont prendre une vive part a 

 votre rualheur. . . . 



The official letter, addressed to Lady Prestwich by 

 the President and Council of the Geological Society 

 of London, records " their high appreciation of the 

 life-long work achieved by Sir Joseph Prestwich, who 

 for sixty-three years was a member of their body, alike 

 respected and beloved." 



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