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Nature, reviewing Professor Prestwich's book on geology in 

 1886, characterized him as the acknowledged master of British geol- 

 ogy, of whom it might be safely affirmed that no living geologist had 

 contributed in a greater degree to the advance of science by his 

 important original researches. 



Sir Joseph Lister, speaking in the Royal Society of his death, 

 said that in him " we have lost about the last link that remained 

 which connected geologists of the present day with the founders of 

 the science in the first half of the century. To him we are indebted 

 not only for the first comprehensive classification of the Tertiary 

 beds of this country, to which he assigned the names by which they 

 will henceforth be universally known, but also for their connection 

 with the strata of the Paris basin. To him also is due the credit 

 of having been the first to establish the authenticity of the remains 

 of human workmanship found in the drift deposits of the valley of 

 the Somme, and of thus having laid secure foundations on which 

 arguments as to the extreme antiquity of man upon the earth may 

 be based. In France his name is known and respected as much as in 

 England, and it would be hard to say how much of the advance in 

 geological knowledge during the last sixty years was not due to his. 

 unremitted labors, which extended over the whole of that period." 



Professor Prestwich retired from the professorship at Oxford in 

 1888, and spent the rest of his life at his country home in Shoreham, 

 working till almost his last day with undiminished activity. The 

 list of his papers in the catalogue of the Royal Society includes 

 seventy-seven titles, to say nothing of his contributions to other 

 societies and journals. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Soci- 

 ety in 1853; was appointed its vice-president in 1870; was presi- 

 dent of the Geological Society in 1870; obtained the "Wollaston 

 medal of the Geological Society in 1849, and the Royal medal of 

 the Royal Society in 1865; was president of the International Geo- 

 logical Congress in 1888; and was correspondent of the Institute of 

 France, and foreign member of the Accademia dei Lyncei, Rome, 

 the Imperial Geological Institute of Vienna, the Royal Academy 

 of Brussels, the American Philosophical Society, and other learned 

 bodies. 



The London Spectator recently had a story of a dog that could under- 

 stand a telephonic message, and now has another of a little fox terrier 

 which, when the family are from home, goes to stay with one of the work- 

 men, three miles away. When the people return, they send word to the 

 mill directing that "Donovan " be told of it. He invariably arrives in the 

 afternoon. He is quite happy and contented at the workman's till he is 

 told of the return of his master and mistress, but after that nothing will 

 keep him from the house. 



