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labours, efficiently aided and cared for by a loving wife the niece of 

 his old friend, Dr. Hugh Falconer. 



The first public recognition of his services, both to science and 

 the State, was accorded him at the beginning of the present year, 

 when he received the honour of knighthood, with the unanimous 

 acclaim of the scientific world. But he was, alas ! not destined to 

 bear his honours long, and, after some months of great physical 

 weakness, he died on June 23rd, 1896. 



Of his personal amiability, his devoted friendship, and his charm 

 of manner, this is hardly the place to speak : but all those with whom 

 he was brought into contact will agree that in Sir Joseph Prestwich 

 we have lost not only one of the great pillars of geological science, 

 but a geologist whose mind was as fully stored with accumulated 

 knowledge as that of any of his contemporaries, and one who was 

 always ready to place those stores generously and freely at the 

 disposal of others. 



J. E. 



GKORGE JOHNSON was born in November, 1818, at Goudhurst, in 

 Kent, and he received his education at the Grammar School there. 

 In 1837 he paid a visit of some weeks to an uncle who was a medical 

 practitioner in Cranbrook, and became so enamoured with the life of 

 a country doctor that he decided to join his uncle as an apprentice. 

 There he remained for two years and a half, and then entered the 

 medical department of King's College, London, with which institu- 

 tion his name has been so intimately connected ever since. His 

 college life was a highly distinguished one; he obtained numerous 

 prizes and scholarships both at the College and at the University of 

 London, where he took his degree of M.D. in 1844. At King's 

 College Hospital he served as clinical clerk to Dr. Todd, and dresser 

 to Sir William Ferguson ; later on he became house physician, house 

 surgeon, and, in 1843, resident medical tutor. At the end of his 

 college course he was elected an Associate of King's College. 



This brilliant academical career altered his intention of becoming 

 a country practitioner, and he decided to remain in London. In 

 1846 he became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, and 

 four years later was elected a Fellow. At the College of Physicians 

 he filled many important offices, including those of Examiner in 

 Medicine, Councillor, Censor, Vice-President, Goulstonian Lecturer, 

 Lumleian Lecturer, and Harveian Orator. In 1862 he was appointed 

 a Senator of the University of London ; in 1872 he became a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society ; and, in 1884, President of the Royal Medical 

 and Chirurgical Society. 



His appointments at King's College Hospital were those of 

 Assistant Physician (1847), Full Physician (1856), Professor of 



