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Selw^'n was of a bright and cheery disposition, and besides the 

 happy reunions held in London on the part of the " Koyal Hammerers/' 

 as they styled themselves, Eamsay, Aveline, Selwyn, Jukes and other 

 geologists of Wales, along with their contemporaries, the annual dinners 

 of the Survey were events in which a jolly time was spent. Ramsay, 

 in recording Selwyn's presence at a dinner held January, 1851, says: 

 " x\nd, oh ! wasn't it a Jolly dinner." 



In his Memoir of Sir A. C. Ramsay, Sir Archibald Geikie writes 

 p. 66) : — " The staff of geological surveyors under Ramsay, besides W. 

 T. Aveline, Trevor E. James, D. H. Williams, and H. W. Bristow, 

 already members of the Ordnance Geological Survey, was now aug- 

 mented by the appointment of W. H. Bailey and A. R. C. Selwyn — 

 a name which will be frequently mentioned in the coursa of this 

 Memoir." In a foot-note, the same author writes : — " Alfred R. C. 

 Selwyn, after doing admirable work in the mapping of North Wales, 

 resigned, in July, 1852, to accept the charge of the Geological Survey 

 of Victoria. On the resignation of Sir William Logan, he was appointed 

 Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, an office which he still 

 worthily fills." ^ 



Sir Archibald mentions the stubject of this memorial so often and 

 in so many interesting connexions, that it may not be deemed out of 

 place to refer to a number of the more important ones. 



On page 75 is to be found an account of Ramsay's work in South 

 Wales with Selwyn, in the rugged country of Cader Idris. Conjoint 

 work was done by them in later years in the complicated volcanic 

 geology of North Wales. On p. 79 he points out the work around 

 Dolgelli, whilst a full-page portrait of Selwyn is given in a plate facing 

 page 80, which portrait represents him during his official connexion with 

 the Victoria Geological Survey. The photo was taken by Perry, of 

 Melbourne. 



Farther on, p. 105, we learn that Selwyn, Jukes, Smyth, and Gibbs, 

 along with Ramsay, held a consultation " over some trappy specimens . 

 . . . to look at Jukes's ash-bedsi." Later (p. 108) we find Selwyn 

 again with Ramsay at Ffestiniog, and over a good deal of the ground 

 around that region, where several problems had arisen in the course of 

 the mapping. On the 8th of June, Ramsay entered the following 

 notes in his diary : — " Up again to the hills south-west of Craigy Cae. 

 Got in aome faults and a lot of strange dykes and squirted traps. 

 Selwyn and T separated and took different ground, and often met again 

 to compare and compile." Sir Andrew writes in his diary for October 

 11th : — " While at work on the side of Crib Goch I heard Selwyn's shrill 



* The Memoir was written Sept., 1894. 



