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I have noticed the criticisms on your work, 1 but such oppo- Letter 

 sition must be expected by every one who draws fine grand 574* 

 conclusions, and such assuredly are yours as abstracted in 

 your letter. What magnificent progress Geology has made 

 within my lifetime ! 



I shall have very great pleasure in sending you any of my 

 books with my autograph, but I really do not know which to 

 send. It will cost you only the trouble of a postcard to tell 

 me which you would like, and it shall soon be sent. Forgive 

 this untidy note, as it is rather an effort to write. 



With all good wishes for your continued success in science 

 and for your happiness. . . . 



1 Mr. S. B. J. Skertchly recorded " the discovery of palaeolithic flint 

 implements, mammalian bones, and fresh-water shells in buck-earths 

 below the Boulder-clay of East Anglia," in a letter published in the Gcol, 

 Mag.) Vol. III., p. 476, 1876. (See also The Fenland^ Past and Present. 

 S. H. Miller and S. B. J. Skertchly, London, 1878.) The conclusions of 

 Mr. Skertchly as to the pre-Glacial age of the flint implements were not 

 accepted by some authorities. (See correspondence in Nature^ Vol. XV., 

 1877, pp. 141, 142.) We are indebted to Mr. Marr for calling our atten- 

 tion to Mr. Skertchly's discovery. 



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