CHAPTER II 



Visit to London Murchison Theatres Return home 

 WeddelPs surgery Surgery work Carrying physic 

 Domestic life Surgery cleaning Doctors' bills Dis- 

 tribution of country bills System of apprenticeship 

 Shooting and plant hunting Awakening cords Poly- 

 trichum on Oliver's Mount Memoir on rare birds 

 Fossil flora Drawing on the kitchen table WeddelPs 

 botanical lectures Staith's Excursion Memoir to 

 Geological Society Fate of this memoir Messrs. Tate 

 and Blake's misrepresentation Insect hunting Nebria 

 Livida Second discovery of Nebria Livida Pomerine 

 Skua. 



AT the end of March 1832 I returned home. 



Instructions had, however, been sent to me to 

 spend a few days in London, and especially to call 

 upon my father's old friend, Sir Roderick Murchison, 

 the distinguished geologist. This was to me a 

 solemn business. Murchison, Sedgwick, Lyell, 

 and Buckland were the deities of my geological 

 Olympus. When, having been invited to breakfast 

 with the great man, I stood upon his doorstep in 

 Bryanston Place, I had scarcely courage to ring 

 the door bell. 



