468 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



the Bishop of Oviedo, my last sermon " ne 

 sent pas de 1'apoplexie." I have, nevertheless, 

 been desperately out of sorts and full of gout 

 and liver and all kinds of irritation this sum- 

 mer, which is the first for many a long year 

 in which I have been unable to take the field. 

 The meeting at Birmingham, however, re- 

 vived me. Professor W. Rogers will have 

 told you all about our doings. Buckland is 

 up to his neck in " sewage," and wishes to 

 change all underground London into a fossil 

 cloaca of pseudo coprolites. This does not 

 quite suit the chemists charged with sanitary 

 responsibilities ; for they fear the Dean will 

 poison half the population in preparing his 

 choice manures ! But in this as in everything 

 he undertakes there is a grand sweeping 

 view. 



When are we to meet again ? And when 

 are we to have a " stand - up fight ' on the 

 erratics of the Alps ? You will see by the 

 abstract of my memoir appended to my Al- 

 pine affair that I have taken the field against 

 the extension of the Jura ! In a word, I do 

 not believe that great trunk glaciers ever 

 filled the valleys of the Rhone, etc. Perhaps 

 you will be present at our next meeting of 

 the British Association at Edinburgh, August, 



