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Abstract

THE retirement of the veteran Prof. Prestwich from the Chair of Geology at Oxford is an event which cannot be chronicled without regret. But it is pleasant to know that he re-linquishes the post which he has dignified for so many years to find in the quiet of his country home that leisure and rest to which his long devotion to the cause of science so justly entitles him. He has crowned his professorial career by the publication of the splendid volume which completes his great work on geology. On the very day after the appearance of that volume the electors met at Oxford to select from the numerous candidates a successor to fill his place. His University and the science of geology may both be congratulated on their choice. Prof. Green, whom they have chosen, is one of the most accomplished geologists in the country, one who has been trained in the practical school of the Geological Survey, who has done admirable original work, and who possesses in no common measure the power of luminous exposition. He is gifted, moreover, with a faculty in which geologists are often singularly defective, that of mathematical investigation, and we may hope that one of the results of his transference to Oxford will be to afford him an opportunity of devoting himself to the attack of many geological problems from the mathematical side. He carries with him to his new sphere of labour the best wishes of all to whom the progress of geology and the cultivation of science at the Universities are dear.