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hands, beyond some associated observations and 

 allusions to my youthful geological pursuits. These 

 caused me to write to the great Oxford Professor, 

 thanking him for his kind action. At that time many 

 of my contributions had been published in Lindley 

 and Hutton's " Fossil Flora," and I presume he had 

 these in his mind when, in a letter replying to mine, 

 he said : " I was much gratified at seeing that the 

 " editor of the Literary Gazette took the same view 

 "that I had done of your interesting account of 

 " the British tumulus, and am happy to have 

 " been instrumental in bringing before the public a 

 " name to which I look forward as likely to figure in 

 " the annals of British science. I trust you will not 

 " fail to receive in your native town that encourage- 

 " ment which strangers, so far as their means extend, 

 " are ready to proffer to you." It may readily be 

 conceived how great an impression the receipt of a 

 communication like this, from so eminent a man, 

 would make upon its youthful recipient. I can, how- 

 ever, distinctly remember that it did not feed my 

 vanity half so much as it aroused within me a deep 

 yet encouraging sense of my responsibility, and also 

 a resolute determination that opinions of me held by 

 Buckland and Murchison should not be disappointed. 

 The letter of Dr. Buckland was one of those influences 

 the effect of which was unmitigatedly healthy. 



A second edition of this memoir was called for a 

 few years after its first appearance, and to my 

 surprise a third was wanted in 1871. 



