1845 HIS FIRST SURVEY MEMOIR 63 



1 qth January. Home to read [Hugh Miller s] 

 Old Red Sandstone. 



* i^th February. Drew [sections]. Phillips (John) 

 came, and we had a big talk. He is still to join us for 

 six months in the year. Went at night to B. and F. I. 

 soiree a most brilliant affair. Moscheles there, and 

 heaven knows all who besides in the musical line. 



2.2nd. At work as usual. Dined, came home, 

 slept, dressed, took a cab to the Athenaeum ; met Sir 

 Henry, and went with him to a soiree at the Marquis 

 of Northampton s. Duke of Cambridge there, Lord 

 Brougham, and many others ; Hallam, Monckton 

 Milnes, Forbes, Graham, Gifford, Babbage, etc. etc. 



1 2nd March, Sunday. Read and wrote. Walked 

 through St. James s Park to Hyde Park, up Hyde 

 Park along Oxford Street, and down Regent Street. 

 Dinner, and came home to roast chestnuts, and finish 

 the rough draft of a paper for our Memoirs. This 

 paper is again referred to under date 5th June, where 

 the entry records : Writing at home at night. Finished 

 my paper for the Memoirs, that is the first writing of it 

 sans re-reading. This was his famous essay on the 

 Denudation of South Wales, which eventually ap 

 peared in the first volume of the Memoirs of the 

 Geological Survey in 1 846, and of which some further 

 account will be given in the following chapter. 



* Ajh. Forbes s lecture. Dined with Falconer * at 

 the Oriental Club ; capital turn-out. Refused the 

 Geological Survey of India. Heigho ! Went to the 

 Linnaean, and afterwards Forbes, Ibbetson, Henfrey, 

 and I supped at Lankester s. Further reference is 



1 Hugh Falconer, born 1808, died 1865 ; distinguished as a palaeontologist 

 and botanist, especially in regard to India, where he spent a large part of his life. 

 His great memoirs on the fossil vertebrates of the Sivalik Hills have been of the 

 highest importance in the history of palaeontological discovery. 



