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and of numerous other friends, were all too rare. The 

 fact of Professor and Mrs H. G. Seeley being for several 

 years at Sevenoaks, and thus within easy reach, was 

 a great pleasure. Now and then American friends 

 came, and had a warm welcome. The lamented Pro- 

 fessor Asa Gray and Mrs Gray paid a short visit, 

 when Dr and Mrs Carpenter were the guests to meet 

 them. On another occasion Professor and Mrs Joseph 

 Le Conte, who were strangers, stayed a night, when, 

 as was remarked to our Professor, it was a case of 

 entertaining angels unawares. He kept up a corre- 

 spondence with the late Professor J. D. Dana ; in 

 short, he had many honoured friends in America. 



Short excursions were made during the summer of 

 1880 within easy distance from Darent-Hulme : one 

 trip being with Mr Spurrell to pits at Crayford ; an- 

 other, to Brasted and to railway cuttings close to 

 Combe Bank, the residence of his friend Mr William 

 Spottiswoode. But he was intent on amassing further 

 evidence in support of his theory of a widespread sub- 

 mergence, and for that purpose set out early in August 

 on a tour in the Channel Islands, accompanied by his 

 wife and her youngest sister. A day or two at Lyme 

 Regis enabled him to acquire the fine collection of 

 Lias fossils, presented by Mrs Philpot to the Oxford 

 Museum ; and as Mr Etheridge chanced to be at the 

 same hotel, the old friends had a pleasant time 

 together. 



Perhaps no geology was more carefully worked out 

 by Prestwich than that of Guernsey and Jersey. Day 

 by day the circuit of the coast of Guernsey was fol- 

 lowed, the search for raised beaches being continued 

 next morning from the point arrived at on the previous 

 evening. The northern half of the island was first 



