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Milford Haven, a place celebrated by Shakespeare 

 in Cymbeline. 1 



Before leaving, Murchison asked me to dine with 

 him next day at seven. Mrs. M. also asked me to 

 breakfast, and to go to church with her afterwards. 

 The remainder of Saturday I spent getting into my 

 lodgings, going through the Geological Museum at 

 Somerset House, calling on Lyell and Graham, 2 and 

 seeing the Polytechnic. Lyell and Graham both 

 received me very kindly, indeed Lyell as much so 

 as Graham. He was very glad to hear of my success, 

 and told me to be sure and let him know when my 

 Geology of Arran came out, as he wished to notice 

 some of my remarks in a new edition of his Elements 

 of Geology. Here s another start. I went to Covent 

 Garden on Saturday night, and was delighted with 

 The Critic. On Sunday I went with Mrs. M. in her 

 carriage to St. Luke s, Chelsea, and having keeked 

 through the rails and seen the Duke of Wellington, 

 I went to Westminster at three. At seven I went to 

 Murchison s to dinner, and there met Mr. Feather- 

 stonhaugh, the American plenipotentiary, his lady, 

 and two gentlemen a Captain Pringle and Mr. 

 Munro. Featherstonhaugh is a lively man, but takes 

 no wine for his stomach s sake. 



Monday I spent in the National Gallery and the 

 British Museum, and in the evening called on Dr. 

 Stanger, with whom I was acquainted at the meeting. 

 I found him out by the merest chance. He took me 



1 The writer s literary memory was here better than his geography. Tenby 

 lies about 18 miles due east from the entrance to Milford Haven. 



2 Thomas Graham, born 1805, died 1869, one of the most distinguished 

 chemists of our time, was for some years Lecturer on Chemistry in Glasgow, and 

 in 1837 became professor of the science at University College, London, an 

 appointment which he held until 1855, when he was made Master of the Mint. 

 He had known Ramsay and his father in Glasgow, and was one of the first men 

 of science to welcome him to London. 



