[ami] sketch of the LIFE OF DR. A. R. C. SELWYN, C.M.G. 179 



shout, and soon discovered him on the top of a crag on Crib Goch. So 

 we joined and compared notes, and soon put matters straight at Glas 

 Lyn. We passed on to the top, often standing to discuss, and just as 

 we got to the bottom, descried our party coming down." 



On page 137 w« find that on the 3rd of August, 1848, Selwyn made 

 the ascent of Snowdon in company of Eeeks and Smyth. On p. 153 

 we find Selwyn, having completed his survey of the ground lying 

 between the Snowdon range on the north and Ffestiniog and Tremadoc 

 on the south, went on to work dn the Lleyn peninsula from Pwlheli. 

 He also worked in the vicinity of Capel Curig, and was wont to be met 

 Ihere by Kamsiay himself. In December of the same year Selwyn 

 joined the Director-G-eneral and Jukes at Trefriw, having come from 

 Clynnog Fawr. Eamsay adds that they joked and had fun all night. 



These incidents and many others which might be cited from the 

 interesting work by Sir Archibald Geikie on the life of Eamsay sen^e 

 to show v/hat intimacy and friendships existed amongst those pioneers 

 in geolog}', who were conscious of the undoubted close relationship 

 which should exist if good and substantial work was to be accomplished 

 in the difficult region of Wales as well as elsewhere. 



WoKK IN Australia. 



In 1852^, before completing the whole task of mapping the regions 

 examined by him in England and Wales, Seliwyn took unto himself a 

 wife, as had also many of his colleagues, marrying Matilda Charlotte, 

 daughter of the Eeverend Edward Selwyn, rector of Hemmingford 

 Abootts, Hunts, and in the following year he was appointed by the 

 Colonial Office, Director of the Geological Survey of the newly formed 

 colony of Victoria, Australia, which had come into great prominence 

 owing to its wonderful gold fields. 



His training in the older palreozoics or Cambrian rocks of Wales 

 was of special value to him in the new colony, and accordingly lie set 

 himself to the task of mapping out the gold bearing rocks and auriferous 

 gravels of the different ages, and in tracing their relation to other 

 rocks of the district. 



Here he had a field of work nearly twelve times greater than he 

 had in Wales; Victoria, the smallest of the Australian colonies, having 

 an area of 87,884 square miles, whilst Wales had a total area of 7,378 

 square miles only. 



In Australia Selw}-n was ably assisted by Messrs. C. S. Wilkinson, 

 H. Y. L. Brawn, Eobert Etheridge, Jr., and other geologists. Besides 

 an extensive series of geologically coloured maps of Victoria, and offi- 



