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it without grumbling, and possibly even with tolerable 

 satisfaction. 



First, Scotland is to be raised to a special branch 

 like Ireland, and Geikie is to be Director. Second, I 

 am to get another ^100 a year, to continue in charge 

 of England and Wales, to drop the Local before 

 Director, and to be ranked as Senior Director. I am 

 to have two * District Surveyors under me, who will 

 be Aveline and Bristow ; two first- class senior 

 geologists, eight second-class, and the rest as before, 

 except that we shall have a large addition to the staff. 

 There would be no use objecting to anything, even if 

 there be anything to object to, for the Duke and My 

 Lords have ruled it, I believe, without reference to Sir 

 Roderick. ... I think I have written Sir Roderick a 

 very good letter, without any grumblings at all. I 

 have only compared myself to the Emperor of Austria, 

 losing not Venice, but his German native dominions, 

 and increasing his revenue thereby, and I have 

 approved of all the other details. 



HAZELHEAD, SHEFFIELD, 

 Afth December 1866. 



MY DEAREST WIFE - - This is an awful day of 

 wind and rain, and this is my tenth, and I hope my 

 last letter. 



From a very official letter Sir R. wrote me, I was 

 afraid he had taken amiss the way I took these 

 changes. But to-day I have had a very long and 

 pleasant letter from him telling me that that was by- 

 no means the case, and that he wrote the short official 

 simply because the subject was strictly of that nature, 

 and he was communicating a copy of Cole s official 

 bearing My Lords pleasure. He also tells me that 



