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topics. These, in which his Celtic nature gave a fineness 

 and incisiveness to the intellectual results of his thorough 

 German training, produced a marked effect wherever they 

 were heard or read ; and in particular the rectorial address 

 which he delivered in August, 1870, at the time of the great 

 •Franco-German war, and which was in part a political 

 harangue, attracted great attention. These various dis- 

 courses were published as " Reden " in 1886-7. 



Thus, during his later years, working at times at his 

 old subject even till near the end, but more especially 

 influential as a powerful personage aiding the development 

 of science, more particularly of German, he lived fall of 

 honour and respect until the end came. He passed away 

 ■on the 26th December, 1896. M. Foster. 



Sir Joseph Prestwich, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S., 

 the descendant of an old Lancashire family, was born at 

 Pensbury, Clapham, near London, on March 12, 1812. He 

 received his early education at Paris, Reading, and, finally, 

 at University College, London. For more than 40 years 

 he was closely connected with the business of his father, a 

 wine merchant in Mark Lane, but in 1874 ne was appointed 

 Professor of Geology at Oxford, in succession to the late 

 Professor Phillips.' This post he held until the year 1888, 

 when he retired, the University at the same time conferring 

 on him the honorary degree of D.C.L. 



His life's work in the advancement of his favourite study 

 of geology, is attested by a series of important memoirs 

 on the Tertiary formations of Europe, a branch of geology 

 -of ^ which he was an acknowledged master. His papers 

 published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of 

 London, " On the Structure of the Crag Beds of Suffolk 

 and Norfolk," and on other collateral subjects, as, the 

 Valley Gravels of the South of England, the Drift and its 

 organic contents, volcanic phenomena and their causes, 

 show the wide range of his researches. 



