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Parkstone, Dorset

15^th February 1891

I see in Nature this week an abstract of Professor’s Prestwich’s paper on the Darent, and I am much interested to see that he imputes much of the gravel and denudation of Kent to glacial action.

It has always seemed to me that the high-level gravels like those here spread over miles of level plateau, with no high land near, and with little signs of the sorting of heavy and light material by water, could not possibly have been deposited by rivers, and therefore necessitate the action of ice.

When Professor Prestwich’s paper is printed, you will, no doubt, have a separate copy and I shall be glad if you will lend it to me, as I am not a Fellow of the Geological Society and do not see their publications.