Friday 1 February 2019

Loess in Britain XVII: Sir Joseph Prestwich [1812-1896]

Prestwich, J.  1864. (a) Theoretical considerations on the conditions under which the (drift) deposits
containing the remains of extinct mammalia and flint implements were accumulated and their geological age  (b) On the Loess of the valleys of the south of England, and of the Somme and the Seine.  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 12, 154,  247-309.
Prestwich wrote on loess and published a significant paper in the Roy.Soc. transactions of 1864. Actually the loess material appeared as part of a two-section paper- which has caused some confusion
There is some bibliographical muddle and this may have prevented him from receiving the loessic credit which is is due.