244 REVIEWS. [1873. 



Usually an early morning's start was made after a 

 slight breakfast, with the understanding that he would 

 return to dinner at seven, or at latest eight, o'clock ; 

 yet often nine had struck before he appeared tired, 

 yet very happy after a good day's work. On being 

 questioned, a confession was made that lunch had 

 consisted of the most meagre fare perhaps a crust 

 of bread with wine at some little roadside inn. The 

 equanimity of the landlady would have been disturbed 

 by the unwonted late and early hours, but for the 

 presence of a faithful old servant who had been nearly 

 thirty years in the service of our geologist, and who 

 made all the domestic machinery work smoothly. 



October was well advanced before his return home, 

 where, although now his own master, work at high 

 pressure was resumed. Early in the year he had 

 contributed articles to the ' Manchester Guardian,' 

 two of which were on " Coal and our Coal Supply " ; 

 and although ostensibly reviews of Professor E. Hull's 

 work ' On the Coalfields of Great Britain,' and of the 

 Coal Commission Reports (including the General Re- 

 port and Sub -Reports), they were practically essays 

 on a subject on which he was well qualified to give 

 an opinion. In August a notice of Professor E. Hull's 

 ' Building Stones ' also appeared in the ' Manchester 

 Guardian,' while in December he was the author of 

 an article on Sir Wyville Thomson's ' Depths of the 

 Sea.' 



His energies were now centred on the elaboration 

 of a paper on Deep Sea Temperatures, upon which, 

 with infinite care and trouble, he had been at work 

 for some time. His reading hitherto, as we have 

 observed, except during attacks of illness, had been 

 purely geological : now it included voyages to Polar 



