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  53.] 
  ANNIVEESABY 
  ADDEESS 
  OF 
  THE 
  PEESIDEN'I. 
  ll 
  

  

  in 
  1870 
  and 
  1871 
  he 
  was 
  a 
  Yice-President 
  of 
  that 
  Society. 
  One 
  of 
  

   the 
  Royal 
  Medals 
  was 
  awarded 
  to 
  him 
  in 
  1865 
  for 
  his 
  contributions 
  

   to 
  geological 
  science. 
  

  

  While 
  Prestwich 
  gave 
  his 
  attention 
  in 
  the 
  main 
  to 
  pure 
  science, 
  

   he 
  did 
  not 
  neglect 
  the 
  important 
  applications 
  of 
  knowledge. 
  By 
  

   his 
  publication 
  in 
  1851 
  of 
  'A 
  Geological 
  Inquiry 
  respecting 
  the 
  

   "Water-bearing 
  Strata 
  of 
  the 
  Country 
  around 
  London 
  ' 
  he 
  came 
  to 
  be 
  

   recognized 
  as 
  the 
  leading 
  geological 
  authority 
  on 
  the 
  subject 
  ; 
  and 
  

   in 
  1867 
  he 
  was 
  appointed 
  a 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  Eoyal 
  Commission 
  on 
  

   Metropolitan 
  Water 
  Supply. 
  He 
  also 
  rendered 
  valuable 
  aid 
  to 
  the 
  

   country 
  by 
  acting 
  on 
  the 
  Eoyal 
  Coal 
  Commission, 
  in 
  connexion 
  

   with 
  which 
  he 
  furnished 
  an 
  exhaustive 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  time 
  

   suggestive 
  Report 
  (published 
  in 
  1871) 
  ' 
  On 
  the 
  Probability 
  of 
  

   finding 
  Coal 
  under 
  the 
  newer 
  Formations 
  of 
  the 
  South 
  of 
  England,' 
  

   — 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  anticipations 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  lived 
  to 
  see, 
  at 
  all 
  events 
  

   partially, 
  realized. 
  In 
  1874 
  the 
  Institution 
  of 
  Civil 
  Engineers 
  

   awarded 
  him 
  a 
  Telford 
  Medal 
  and 
  Premium 
  for 
  his 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  

   ' 
  Geological 
  Conditions 
  affecting 
  the 
  Construction 
  of 
  a 
  Tunnel 
  

   between 
  England 
  and 
  France.' 
  On 
  June 
  29th 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  he 
  

   was 
  appointed 
  Professor 
  of 
  Geology 
  at 
  Oxford 
  in 
  succession 
  to 
  the 
  

   late 
  Prof. 
  Phillips, 
  and 
  his 
  inaugural 
  lecture 
  was 
  published 
  under 
  the 
  

   title 
  of 
  ' 
  The 
  Past 
  and 
  Future 
  of 
  Geology, 
  1875.' 
  In 
  1876, 
  in 
  

   investigating 
  the 
  conditions 
  for 
  a 
  better 
  water-supply, 
  he 
  pointed 
  

   out 
  that 
  there 
  was 
  under 
  Oxford 
  an 
  abundant 
  source 
  of 
  mineral 
  

   water, 
  allied 
  to, 
  but 
  stronger 
  than 
  those 
  of 
  Cheltenham 
  and 
  Leam- 
  

   ington. 
  In 
  1876 
  his 
  elaborate 
  paper 
  on 
  ' 
  Submarine 
  Temperatures,' 
  

   which 
  reviewed 
  all 
  that 
  had 
  been 
  done 
  before 
  the 
  Challenger 
  

   expedition, 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  s 
  Philosophical 
  Transactions.' 
  The 
  vexata 
  

   oucestio 
  of 
  the 
  ' 
  Parallel 
  Roads 
  of 
  Glen 
  Roy 
  ' 
  next 
  engaged 
  his 
  

   attention, 
  and 
  this 
  was 
  followed 
  by 
  several 
  other 
  papers, 
  amongst 
  

   which 
  may 
  be 
  mentioned 
  those 
  on 
  ' 
  Underground 
  Temperatures 
  ' 
  

   and 
  on 
  ' 
  Volcanic 
  Action.' 
  In 
  1885 
  he 
  was 
  elected 
  by 
  the 
  Institute 
  

   of 
  France 
  a 
  Corresponding 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences. 
  

   In 
  1886 
  the 
  1st 
  vol. 
  (Chemical 
  and 
  Physical) 
  of 
  his 
  work 
  on 
  

   Geology 
  was 
  published 
  by 
  the 
  Clarendon 
  Press. 
  The 
  2nd 
  vol. 
  

   (Stratigraphical 
  and 
  Palaeontological), 
  with 
  a 
  Geological 
  Map 
  of 
  

   Europe, 
  appeared 
  in 
  1888. 
  In 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  

   Oxford 
  conferred 
  upon 
  him 
  the 
  honorary 
  degree 
  of 
  D.C.L. 
  He 
  was 
  

   elected 
  President 
  of 
  the 
  International 
  Geological 
  Congress 
  which 
  

   held 
  its 
  4th 
  Session 
  in 
  London 
  in 
  September 
  1888, 
  and 
  in 
  1894 
  he 
  

   was 
  elected 
  into 
  the 
  Reale 
  Accademia 
  dei 
  Lincei 
  of 
  Rome. 
  

  

  