The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . manCatholic clergyman; born in Hartford, Connecticut,July 23, 1824. He waseducated for the ProtestantEpiscopal ministry; wasgraduated at Trinity Col-tege, Hartford, in 1843;was ordained a minister in1846, and was in pastoralservice in various cities inNew York, and was assist-ant rector of St. Lukes ,Church, New York was converted to Ca-tholicism, and became aRoman Catholic priest in1850. He was appointedchancellor of the diocese of New York in 1853, and afterward made rector ofSt. Anns, New York. H
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . manCatholic clergyman; born in Hartford, Connecticut,July 23, 1824. He waseducated for the ProtestantEpiscopal ministry; wasgraduated at Trinity Col-tege, Hartford, in 1843;was ordained a minister in1846, and was in pastoralservice in various cities inNew York, and was assist-ant rector of St. Lukes ,Church, New York was converted to Ca-tholicism, and became aRoman Catholic priest in1850. He was appointedchancellor of the diocese of New York in 1853, and afterward made rector ofSt. Anns, New York. He published several worksincluding: Christian Unity (1866); Beason andBeve-lation {1S6S); and Christ and the Church. He diedin New York City, Nov. 4, 1891. PRESTWICH, Sir Joseph,an English geologist;born in Clapham, near London, March 12, was educated at Reading and at University Col-lege, London, where the bent of his mind wasdirected toward science by the lectures of DionysiusLardner on natural philosophy. Though followinga commercial rather than a scientific career, until. THOMAS S. PRESTON. PRESUMPTION —PRICE 485 far advanced in life, Mr. Prestwich contrived to givegreat attention to geology and to contributions,partly undertaken at the suggestion of Sir RoderickMurchison, to the Traiisacfioin of the GeologicalSociety. These contributions were mainly the re-sults of his own observation and study of geologicalformations in the British Islands, including investi-gations into the sequence of organic remains in theLondon clay, into the valley gravels supposed tocontain remains of man and his works in associationwith extinct mammalia, and into the interestingevidences relating to the ichthyolites of Gamrie, inBanffshire, Scotland. The contemporaneousness ofman with the mammoth and other Pleistocene mam-malia was fully established, and the antiquity of mancame to be the most absorbing topic of the time. Thatvexed question still remains under discussion, al-though Prestw
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