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* i^th January. Home to read [Hugh Miller's] 

 Old Red Sandstone. 



' 19^/2 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. 



' 22nd. 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. 



( 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. 



* ^th. Forbes's lecture. Dined with Falconer l 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. 



