Another very interesting occasion was the reception of the Congress 

 by the King, the Queen and several of the Royal Family at the Palace, 

 on which Napoleon congratulated his brother Joseph, saying that the 

 latter was much better lodged than he was himself at the Tuileries in 

 Paris. At the reception, the Queen Mother repeatedly called attention to 

 the ceiling of the throne-room, which was painted by Tiepolo and in 

 which she evidently took great pride. I had the honour of presentation 

 to the great Primo de Rivera, then at the height of his dictatorial powers, 

 and delighted him by my enthusiasm over the beauties and wonders of 

 Spain. An immense man, both in altitude and circumference, his thin 

 and squeaky voice seemed very incongruous, but significant, for the 

 impression that he made was of a man without force or character. Of 

 my extremely interesting visit to Germany I have already spoken, but 

 must give some account of the stay in England which followed. 



In addition to attendance at the Madrid Congress, the principal object 

 of my journey to Europe was to examine the great collection of photo- 

 graphs made by the Geological Survey of Great Britain and see what 

 could be utilized in the proposed third edition of my Geology. Sir John 

 Flett, Director of the Survey, I had met in Madrid and to him I ex- 

 plained my plans for a visit to London. He was very kind and assured 

 me that I was heartily welcome to make use of any of the Survey's 

 photographs, the negatives of which were all available. When I arrived 

 in London on June 30, I found it so jammed with tourists that it was 

 with the greatest difficulty that I could find a place to sleep. However, 

 after some hours of telephoning, the American Express Company finally 

 secured a room in the mansard roof of the Hotel Cecil and there I 

 thankfully remained for the next ten days. After a visit to Oxford, I 

 began my examination of the many thousand views in the Survey 

 albums. 



The offices of the Geological Survey of Great Britain were still in the 

 old Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street and the building was 

 so near collapse that it was necessary to shore it up with massive timber 

 frame-work, which made circulation difficult in the Museum. The fine 

 new marble building in South Kensington was not quite ready for use. 

 Sir John Flett was still absent from London, but the Assistant Director 

 Dr. J. Allen Howe, received me with the utmost cordiality and placed 

 the great photographic collection at my disposal and the work of study 

 and selection filled all the daylight hours for a week. Dr. Howe had 

 prints made for me and sent them to Princeton after my return home, a 



