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in 1853, served as one of the Secretaries of the Geological 

 Society 1855, became Treasurer of the Geological Society 1856-68, 

 appointed a Royal Commissioner on Water Supply 1865, appointed 

 a Royal Commissioner on Coal Supply 1866, elected President 

 of the Geological Society 1870-72, Vice-President of the Royal 

 Society 1883. In 1849, when only 37 years of age, Prestwich 

 received the " WoUaston Gold Medal." On 23rd June, 1874, when 

 62 years of age, having already accomplished a lifetime of work, 

 he was elected Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford, as 

 successor to Professor John Phillips, F.R.S., a Chair which he held 

 for fifteen years, retiring in 1887, at the age of 75 years ! In 1874 

 the Telford Gold Medal and premium were awarded to Professor 

 Prestwich for his paper on " The Geological Conditions affecting the 

 Construction of a Channel Tunnel." He was made an Honorary 

 D.C.L. (Oxon) in 1888, and received knighthood in 1895 (^t. 84). 

 Truly it may be said of Sir Joseph Prestwich in the words of 

 Chaucer — 



" ^t inas a tietrao perfi'gljt gentil kntgl)t." H. W. 



NOTE ON AMMONITES UVOMFHAZUS, SHAHPE. 



Sir, — The locality given by Sharpe for his type of this Ammonite 

 is quite wrong. Dr. Rowe and myself have just returned from a 

 survey of the Dorset coast, and Mr. Crick has shown me the type. 

 The matrix of Sharpe's specimen is identical with that of the 

 specimen from Humble Point collected by us, and closely 

 approximates to the matrix of the specimen collected by the 

 Geological Survey. There is no matrix anything like it in Man o' 

 War Cove, nor is there anything like it in any of the Dorset coast 

 sections. It undoubtedly came from the Whitland's section in 

 Devonshire. 



This is an excellent example of the confusion caused by accepting 

 any previous records, when attempting to do zonal work or make 

 tables of occurrences. The fossils should be personally collected by 

 those who are responsible for the stratigraphy ; error is then reduced 

 to a minimum. C. Davies Shekborn. 



o:BXTTTJ^:Rizr. 



SIR WILLIAM HENRY FLOWER, 



K.C.B., LU.D., D.C.L., D.Sc, F.R.C.S., Ph.D., fF.R.S., F.L S., F.G.S., Pres-Z.S... 



KNIGHT OF THE PRUSSIAN ORDER "POUR LE MERITE," ETC., ETC., ETC. 



Born November 30, 1831. Died July 1, 1899. 



Few men have had the satisfaction to see so large a share of their 

 hopes and ambitions in life realized as Sir William Flower. 



Born in the historic town of Stratford-on-Avon, where his father's 

 family had already resided for many years, he had the good fortune 

 to b e the second son, and was consequently permitted, from his 

 youth up, to pursue that innate love of natural history which springs 

 eternal in the schoolboy breast, but seldom lasts till manhood. In 



