INDEX 



Cornwall, 38 ; member of Com 

 mission for selecting building material 

 for new Houses of Parliament, 40 ; 

 geological sections of, 44 ; his work 

 in the field, 44 ; knighted, 56 ; 

 sagacity in choosing his colleagues, 

 57 ; becomes Director-General of 

 the Geological Survey of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, 65 ; at Geo 

 logical Society, 78 ; with the staff at 

 Dolgelli, 8 1 ; at Ffestiniog and Bala, 

 83 ; on Survey Memoirs, 84 ; on 

 Cambrian and Silurian controversy, 

 92, 93 ; on Royal Institution, 95 ; 

 proposes that Ramsay should become 

 Professor in University College, 101, 

 1 02 ; opposes R. Chambers, 103 ; 

 at British Association, Oxford, 104 ; 

 mapping in North Wales, 105 ; 

 President of Geological Society, 119, 

 123, 143; his scheme for the 

 erection of a museum, 121 ; alarmed 

 by the proposed publications of his 

 officers, 125 ; officialism of, 127 ; 

 conduct of, at the Chartist scare of 

 1848, 128 ; in the Snowdon country, 

 135, 140; opinion of Lyell and 

 Murchison, 141 ; letters to Ramsay, 

 141 ; at anniversary dinners of the 

 Survey, 142, 160, 175; describes 

 progress of Geological Survey, 143 ; 

 at Royal Institution, 145 ; letter to 

 Ramsay, 153 ; his work in North 

 Wales corrected by Ramsay and 

 Selwyn, 163, 190; anxious for faster 

 progress in Wales, 167, 204 ; work 

 in Anglesey, 170, 171, 172; sup 

 ports Ramsay in regard to glacial 

 geology, 177; Bristow s joke regard 

 ing the Geological Observer, 181 ; 

 recognition of his claims in founding 

 the Jermyn Street establishment, 

 182, 184 ; receives the Wollaston 

 medal, 184; first President of the 

 School of Mines, 186 ; in Anglesey 

 with Ramsay, 1 90 ; on the action of 

 the sea, 191 ; letter to Ramsay on 

 his engagement, 194; on Ramsay s 

 return from his marriage tour, 202 ; 

 on the extension of the Geological 

 Survey to Scotland, 209 ; failing 

 powers of, 210, 216, 224, 226 ; at 

 Glengariff with Jukes and Ramsay, 

 217 ; his relations to Ramsay in 

 respect of the Director-Generalship, 

 225 ; his last days, 226 ; death, 



227 ; his opinion of Ramsay s views 

 regarding Permian breccias, 228 ; 

 his latest official decisions, 231 ; his 

 influence longed for again, 295 ; 

 Ramsay s opinion of, 329 



Dent, Ramsay on Vale of, 288, 302 



Denudation, subaerial, development of 

 Ramsay s views regarding, 23, 199, 

 221, 254, 280, 358, 359 



&quot; Denudation of South Wales,&quot; paper 

 on, written by Ramsay, 63 ; planned 

 for first volume of Memoirs of Geo 

 logical Survey, 67 ; criticised favour 

 ably by De la Beche, 78 ; published, 

 84 ; summarised, 358 



Department of Science and Art, 207, 208 



Derbyshire, 121, 144, 189, 211 



Derwent river, 301, 343 



Desor, Prof., 305 



Devon and Cornwall, Report on, by 

 De la Beche, 38 ; maps of, Ramsay s 

 opinion of, 205, 206 



Dillwyn, Mr., 135 



Disraeli, story of, 302 



District Surveyors appointed in Geo 

 logical Survey, 290, 291 



Dolaucothi, visits to, 76, 81, 108, 

 235, 330 ; tragedy at, 340 



Dolfuss-Ausset, M., 199 



Dolgelli, geology of, 79, 81, 82, 125, 

 133, 168, 193, 214, 332 



Dolwyddelan, 157, 213 



Donegal, 315 



Doon river, 248 



Dora Baltea, 341 



Dorset, 99, 121, 133, 144, 158, 180,21 1 



Dresden, 266 



Drift, glacial, .167, 168, 178, 203, 253, 

 261, 293 



Dry-proofs of maps, 60 



Dublin, 319, 320, 342 



Ducie, Lord, 270 



Dudley, 147 



Dumfriesshire, 315, 344 



Dunbar, Geological Survey of Scotland 

 begun at, 219; Ramsay s descrip 

 tions of, 220-223 



Duncan, P. M., 334 



Dundalk, 315 



Dundee, 297 



Dunford Bridge, 289 



Dunoyer, G. V., 212 



Durham County, 314 



description of, by Ramsay, 288 



EAST LOTHIAN, Geology of, 220 



