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made two days later to the host here mentioned. 

 * Falconer came, and Logan 1 is the man for India. 

 Sir H. told me, like a daddy, he would advise me not 

 to go, but he would not stand in my way. Shan't take 

 it. At Captain Smyth's 2 at night. Pleasant party. 



' \2th. Reeks 3 came home with me, and we had 

 tea and ham together. Then the Geological Society ; 

 scrimmage between Sedgwick and Greenough. Play- 

 fair and I had a long talk after about my Welsh affairs.' 

 The animated discussions at this Society are merely 

 alluded to in the diary. Thus on 5th February he 

 notes : * Geological night. Fitton 4 on Greensand ; 

 a tremendous row, and a regular blow-up after between 

 Fitton and Forbes.' On 2nd April : ' Went to the 

 Geological Society, where old Warburton 5 frightened 

 me out of my wits by calling on me to speak ; ' 6 and 

 on the 1 6th of the same month: 'Jolly night at the 

 Geological. Buckland's glaciers smashed.' 7 



1 William Edmond Logan, born 1798, died 1875 ; connected in early life 

 with the South Welsh coal-field, of which hemapped a large part, afterwards handing 

 over his maps to the Geological Survey, which published them ; subsequently 

 appointed Director of the Geological Survey of Canada ; one of the great 

 pioneers of pre-Cambrian geology. He was a life-long cherished friend of 

 Ramsay. He retired from the Canadian Survey in 1869, and afterwards settled 

 in this country, and died here. 



2 Captain, afterwards Admiral William Henry Smyth, born 1788, died 

 1865 ; distinguished for his great survey of the Mediterranean, for his numerous 

 contributions on nautical and astronomical subjects, for his acquirements in numis- 

 matics, and for his important services in founding the Royal Geographical Society. 



3 Trenham Reeks was appointed in 1839 to the Museum in Craig's Court, 

 and was Curator of the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street from its 

 inauguration until his death in 1879. 



4 William Henry Fitton, born 1780, died 1861 ; an able geologist, to whom 

 we are largely indebted for the stratigraphical arrangement of the Cretaceous rocks 

 of England. The paper read by him on the 5th February 1845 was 'On the 

 Atherfield Section of the Lower Greensand in the Isle of Wight.' 



6 Henry Warburton, born 1784, died 1858; President of the Geological 

 Society 1843 to l8 45- 



6 The subject on which Ramsay was called on to speak was a paper by Captain 

 Bayfield, ' On the Junction of the Transition and Primary Rocks of Canada.' 



7 The writer of this curt record lived to be one of the foremost supporters of 

 the 'glaciers' which he here dismisses. The paper read at the Society was one by 

 A. F. Mackintosh, ' On the Supposed Evidences of the Former Existence of Glaciers 

 in North Wales,' controverting the conclusions previously published by Buckland. 



