56 Mr. Farey’s Geological Observations in Scotland, Se.. 
land business and other urgent matters, have occasioned the 
iuteriuptions to my occasiona! contributions, through your 
valuable work, towards the knowledge of the stratification 
of the British Isles. 
Before any leisure occurred to me for adverting to Mr.. 
Bakeweil’s Leiter in your Number for July 1812, he had 
announced his being engaged on an *¢ Introduction to Geo- 
logy,” and T have since waited until I could give a very at- 
tent ve reading to his Book. Now we are more fairly at 
issue, on the points in our Letters in your xxxixth vol. 
p- 425, and xlth vol. p. 45. 
The precise nature of Mr. B’s original ** Geological Map 
of England” is now seen, in his 4ih plate. Asan ‘¢ Outline” 
say 80 of crery individual thereof, of this fact he produced however no proof, 
nor have I the opportunity to the present hour of learning in a regular 
way, any -pinion r decision whatever vf the Council (much less of the Suciety) 
respecting my Paper, Section, or Maps, or the nature of the objections that 
have privately been raised to any parts of either ! 
This learned Editor and caterer for the Geological taste, went on to per- 
suade me, that he himself was a well wisher to my pursuits and communica- 
tions (with what truth the circumstances best tell) and had therefore taken 
immense. pains (o write a new paper for me, which after perusing (as 1 did 
with great care) 1 would do well he said to adopt and allow my signature 
to be placed as my original communication! 1 scarcely need say more, to 
convey an idea of this performance, to my Friends, who know the facts of 
Derbyshire and its strata, than that the Report in the Phil. Mag. vol. xli. 
p- S03 to /05, and its many misconceptions and blunders, was made from 
this Editors Paper, instead of my original paper; and perhaps this only was 
Read (not on a regular meeting day) instead of my original paper? The 
above fact as to the original of the printed Report, appeared clearly to 
me, from their perfect coincidence in the erroneous points. 
—On my objecting to this course to Mr. Editor, and attempting to-show, 
that the first part of my paper (near half of it and by far the most important 
part) would be injured greatly by the total change of arrangement and in- 
ordinate compression it had suffered (the Report on this part is accordingly 
compressed into 4 lines, p. 303), aud my Mineral Map greatly spoilyd by 
the a].eration (from whim only,as far us I could learn) that was insisted on 
therein 1 was coolly told, that the Se refaries would immediately velurn my 
apers, if / uppiied fir them ; and so they did, on ihe 21st of June, without the 
east explanation of or apology for, the extraordinary circumstances pointed 
out to them or referred to, in my Letier of the 19th of June. J have not at- 
tempted to quote the precise words which passed on the above uaprecedented 
and disagreeable occasions, but to give the substance, as concisely and as cor- 
rectly as I could. 
It appeared unnecessary above, in referring my Derbyshire Friends to the 
Geological Report on my pzper, p 303, vol. xli. to stave, that the loose and 
inapplicable Anglo. Wernericn terms therein, were not used by me, bui sone 
of them expressly disclaimed in my paper as being contrary to more proper 
terms, previously in use among EBngiist Geologists, and to which J adhered: 
this was ii) Consequence of being actually told by au individual Men.ber of the 
Geological ouicil, while my paper was 10 hand, that if'/ did not use Werne- 
rian Terms nobody would read my poper! It was rather unfortunate, chat! 
could not then see the full import of this hint, and have avoided the loss of 
‘many wecks of my time this spring, and some subrequent vexation. 
it. 
