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from yours. But I do not consider my conclusions 

 yet conclusive, nor do I yours, nor Talbot s, and he 

 knows more about it than any of us. However, we 

 are in a fair way. Lists, Lists, Lists, are what we 

 want, and what you want, and without lists the fight is 

 not two-thirds done. You nearly shook us about these 

 Bwlch Trebannon beds being Upper ; but not quite, 

 for we could not reconcile it to our consciences that 

 they could be anything but Lower. However, by 

 help of lists and physics, we ll purge the whole 

 question, and have it all straight next spring. As to 

 unconformities I say nothing, and wink my mental eye. 

 Therefore let us have lists. I shall be up in a week 

 or eight days. Ever sincerely, A. C. RAMSAY. 



In London it was difficult to carry on continuous 

 literary labour, so many colleagues had questions to 

 ask, and so many callers were desirous of a chat or of 

 information. Nevertheless, he contrived to send off 

 to the editor of the Edinburgh New Philosophical 

 Journal a review of the fifth edition of Lyell s Manual 

 of Elementary Geology. This article appeared anony 

 mously, but its authorship was manifest. It was 

 obviously written by a man of wide practical acquaint 

 ance with geology, who could speak familiarly of the 

 geological features of many parts of the British Isles 

 of which no account had yet been published ; who 

 could appeal forcibly to evidence of glaciation in 

 central Scotland, mentioning localities that had never 

 been cited before ; who could refer to places all over 

 Wales from Anglesey to Pembrokeshire, some of which 

 no geologist out of the Survey had ever visited ; who 

 knew Charnwood Forest, had rambled across Shrop 

 shire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire, had 



