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propriately awarded during the presidency of Sorby, the dis- 
tinguished English experimental geologist. Another most 
valuable work by Daubree, entitled "Eaux Souterraines," in 
three volumes, was published in 1887. 
During his later years, with leisure and well merited hon- 
ors, Daubree took great interest in public affairs and much 
enjoyed 'the society of his friends, among whom two other oc- 
togenarians, Damour and Des Cloiseaux, shared with him the 
distinction of being the veterans of science in the capital of 
France. w. u. 
Joseph Prestwich: born March 12, 1812; died June 2.3, 1896. 
Prestwich was born at Pensbury, Clapham, near London. 
After two years at school in Paris, his education was cf>m- 
pleted in the then new University College, London, where he 
evinced strong preference and ability for chemistry and the 
natural sciences. He was led by circumstances, however, to a 
life of business, in which he was closely engaged, althoiigh 
also continually pursuing geologic investig':itions, till he 
reached the age of sixty years. His business engagements 
required him to travel much throughout Great Britain and in 
France and Belgium, giving him frequent opportunities for 
geologic field studies and collection of fossils in the most in- 
teresting localities, and for acquiring personal acquaintance 
with the most prominent naturalists and geologists. In 
France these included Deshayes, D'Orbigny, Lartet, De Ver- 
neuil, Daubree. Gaudrj^ and others, with whom lifelong 
friendships were thus begun. 
So early as 1831-32 Prestwich devoted his holidays to a 
thorough examination of the coal field of Coalbrook Dale, and 
his memoir on that area was published in two parts, in 1834 
and 1836, in the Transactions of the Geological Society of 
London, with paleontological notes by his friend, Prof. Mor- 
ris. This w^rk was followed, ten years later, by a series of 
papers in the Quarterly Journal of the same society, on the 
strata of the London and Hampshire Tertiary basins, by 
which Prestwich took his place in the front rank of British 
geologists. In 1819 the Geological Society awarded to him 
the Wollaston Medal for these researches. 
In 1859 Prestwich visited the valley of the Somme, in 
France, confirming the remarkable discoveries of Boucher de 
Perthes and convincing his own countr^nnen, Sir John Evans, 
Godwin-Austen, and other geologists, that some of the fiints 
there found are implements of human workmanship and in 
undisturbed gravels of great antiquity. In recognition of the 
importance of this work, and of other papers on the erosion 
and drift terraces of valleys in southern England, he received 
in 1865 a medal of the Royal Society. The opposition of the- 
