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and inimical to religion and morality. Buckland at 

 Oxford, and Sedgwick at Cambridge, made geology 

 popular by combining it with equestrian exercise ; 

 and Whewell tells us how the eccentric Buckland used 

 to ride forth from the University, with a long caval- 

 cade of mounted students, holding forth with sarcasm 

 and ridicule concerning ' the inadequacy of existing 

 causes 22 .' 



And Sedgwick at Cambridge was no less firmly 

 opposed to evolutionary doctrine, eloquently declaim- 

 ing at all times against the unscriptural tenets of the 

 Huttonians. 



I cannot better illustrate the complete neglect at 

 that time by leading geologists in this country of the 

 Huttonian teaching than by pointing to the Report 

 drawn up in 1833, by Conybeare, for the British 

 Association, on 'The Progress, Actual State and 

 Ulterior Prospects of Geological Science 23 .' This 

 valuable memoir of 47 pages opens with a sketch of 

 the history of the science, in which the chief Italian, 

 French and German investigators are referred to, but 

 the name of Hutton is not even mentioned ! 



And if positive evidence is required of the con- 

 tempt which the early geologists felt for Hutton and 

 his teachings, it will be found in the same author's 

 introduction to that classical work, the Outlines of 

 Geology (1822), in which he says of Hutton, after 



