Author:Joseph Prestwich

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Joseph Prestwich (1812–1896)

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British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period. Husband of Grace Anne Prestwich

Joseph Prestwich

Works

• A Geological Inquiry Respecting the Water-bearing Strata of the Country Around London, 1851 external link
• The Ground Beneath Us, Its Geological Phases and Changes, 1857 external link
• "On the presence of a Raised Beach on Portsdown Hill, near Portsmouth, and on the occurrence of a Flint Implement on a high level at Downton" in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London volume 28, pages 38–41 (1872)
• Report on the Exploration of Brixham Cave with William Pengelly, G. Busk; John Evans, 1873 external link
• Tables of temperatures of the sea at various depths below the surface, 1874 external link
• On the geological conditions affecting the construction of a tunnel between England and France, 1874 external link
• On the origin of the Chesil Bank, 1875 external link
• Geology: Chemical, Physical, and Stratigraphical, 1886 external link

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "The Position of Geology" in Popular Science Monthly, 44 (February 1894)

Works about Prestwich

• "Prestwich, Joseph," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Prestwich, Sir Joseph," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)