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| birth_date = 1812 | | birth_date = 1812 | ||
| death_date = 1896 | | death_date = 1896 | ||
| − | | address = Shoreham Sevenoaks [1869]<br />34 Broad Street, Oxford [1879] | + | | address = Shoreham Sevenoaks [1869]<br />34 Broad Street, Oxford [1879]<br />35 St Giles', Oxford [1883]<br />Darent-Hulme, near Shoreham, Sevenoaks [1888] |
| − | | occupation = | + | | occupation = geologist<br />business |
| elected_ESL = 1869.06 | | elected_ESL = 1869.06 | ||
| elected_ASL = | | elected_ASL = | ||
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| membership = ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow | | membership = ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow | ||
| − | | left = | + | | left = 1896 deceased |
| clubs = Athenaeum Club | | clubs = Athenaeum Club | ||
| − | | societies = Royal Society<br />Zetetical Society<br />Geological Society | + | | societies = Royal Society<br />Zetetical Society<br />Geological Society<br />Palaeontographical Society |
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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=== House Notes === | === House Notes === | ||
| − | Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford [1879] | + | Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford [1879]<br />1896.11.10 death announced<br />death noted in report of the council for 1896<br />Brabrook's Presidential address 1897: Sir Joseph Prestwich was also a Fellow of our Institute, ancl though his scientific honoiirs were gained as a geologist, we bear in mind a recent occasion on which he exhibited a remarkable collection of extremely rude flint implements, found in Kent, and communiicated a paper thereon which was the subject of muLch discussion at the time, and has led to the continuance of the ventilation of the question of a pre-palaeo- lithic race by papers subsequently laid before us by other fauthors expressing different views upon it. In a coinmunication which I lhave been permitted to address to the current number of the "Zoologist" by the courtesy of its editor, our former director, Mr. Distant, I have attempted briefly to indicate some of the grouLindls upon which, as it seems to me, the con- clusions which Sir Joseph Prestwich indicated on that occasion may be maintained. |
=== Notes From Elsewhere === | === Notes From Elsewhere === | ||
Sir Joseph Prestwich FRS, (12 March 1812 – 23 June 1896) was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum club from 1863 | Sir Joseph Prestwich FRS, (12 March 1812 – 23 June 1896) was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds.<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum club from 1863 | ||
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== Related Material Details == | == Related Material Details == | ||
=== RAI Material === | === RAI Material === | ||
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=== Other Material === | === Other Material === | ||
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| Born | 1812 | ||||||||||||
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Shoreham Sevenoaks [1869] 34 Broad Street, Oxford [1879] 35 St Giles', Oxford [1883] Darent-Hulme, near Shoreham, Sevenoaks [1888] | ||||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford [1879]
1896.11.10 death announced
death noted in report of the council for 1896
Brabrook's Presidential address 1897: Sir Joseph Prestwich was also a Fellow of our Institute, ancl though his scientific honoiirs were gained as a geologist, we bear in mind a recent occasion on which he exhibited a remarkable collection of extremely rude flint implements, found in Kent, and communiicated a paper thereon which was the subject of muLch discussion at the time, and has led to the continuance of the ventilation of the question of a pre-palaeo- lithic race by papers subsequently laid before us by other fauthors expressing different views upon it. In a coinmunication which I lhave been permitted to address to the current number of the "Zoologist" by the courtesy of its editor, our former director, Mr. Distant, I have attempted briefly to indicate some of the grouLindls upon which, as it seems to me, the con- clusions which Sir Joseph Prestwich indicated on that occasion may be maintained.
Notes From Elsewhere
Sir Joseph Prestwich FRS, (12 March 1812 – 23 June 1896) was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds.
Member of the Athenaeum club from 1863
Publications
External Publications
Geology of Coalbrookdale
Geology, Chemical and Physical, Stratigraphical and Palaeontologic
