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graphy, I had applied to Ramsay for any of Mur- 

 chison s letters which he could supply, and also for 

 information as to the best way of procuring materials 

 from some of the old chiefs correspondents. He 

 answered as follows : I have no influence with 

 Sedgwick. We are very good friends, but he never 

 quite forgets the Survey having turned his Cambrian 

 into Lower Silurian, so aiding Sir Roderick, without 

 specially meaning it. ... I doubt if Hughes will be 

 able to help you in that matter. Sedgwick is still sore 

 about it. ... I never saw Wollaston, but Greenough, 

 Buckland, Warburton, and Fitton I knew. There 

 ought also to be De la Beche, Sedgwick, old John 

 Taylor, Whewell, Mantell, Major Clark, old Stokes, 

 Sir Philip Egerton, Lord Enniskillen, Babbage, and 

 others. They used all to have a jollification at Lord 

 E. s rooms in Jermyn Street after the meetings. Lord 

 E. told me a lot of things last autumn, which I now 

 nearly forget. 



Of the voluminous memoir on the Geology of 

 North Wales, published in 1866, a new edition was 

 now required, and its author set about the necessary 

 preparation. The house at Beaumaris came then to 

 be of more practical value to him than ever, for while 

 it allowed him to escape conveniently from London, 

 and to keep his family around him, it provided him 

 with a home near the ground which he might have to 

 re-examine. This new edition continued to be one of 

 his main employments during the rest of his official 

 life. 



While at Beaumaris, in the summer of 1873, he 

 made a short excursion to St. David s, the geology of 

 which had in recent years been brought into pro 

 minence by Mr. Salter and Dr. Hicks, whose con- 



