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I had told Chambers in Edinburgh after the publication 

 of the fourth edition. He is the author [see p. 137]. 



2<zth. Anniversary of the Geological Society. 

 Heard some of it. Went to the dinner afterwards ; sat 

 beside Sir H. and Henry, 1 Ansted, 2 Strickland, 

 Sopwith, 3 Austen, 4 and others of our party. Good 

 fun. Murchison awfully grand. 



2\st. At work as usual. Lord Northampton's 

 first soiree. Prince Albert, Sir Robert [Peel], and 

 Lord John [Russell] there among the crowd. Left at 

 half-past eleven. Dined with Reeks and Daily. 



2$t/i. Went to hear paper [by J. Prestwich 5 ] on 

 the Tertiaries of the Isle of Wight at the Geological ; 



excellent. The made an ass of himself. Sir 



H. spoke admirably. 



\2th March. Sir H. criticised the first part of 

 my paper [on the Denudation of South Wales] to-day 

 most flatteringly. 



ijtk. Dr. Smith dined with us. Afterwards we 

 went to the Haymarket, and died of laughter. Oysters 

 with Playfair.' 



1 Thomas Hetherington Henry, at one time head brewer in the brewery of 

 Messrs. Trueman, Hanbury, and Buxton, afterwards practised as an analytical 

 chemist. He was a contemporaiy and friend of Edward Forbes, a member of 

 the Red Lion Club, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 



2 David Thomas Ansted, born 1814, died 1880; Professor of Geology at 

 King's College, London ; Assistant-Secretary of the Geological Society from 

 1844 to 1847 ; author of numerous popular works on geology. During the last 

 thirty years of his life he was largely consulted in regard to the practical applica- 

 tions of geology, and was much employed as a professional witness. 



3 Thomas Sopwith, born 1803, died 1879 ; an ingenious mechanician, who 

 devised many excellent geological models ; devoted much time to the study of 

 mining districts ; became Commissioner for the Crown under the Dean-Forest 

 Mining Act, and ultimately manager of the Allendale Mines. 



4 R. A. C. Godwin-Austen, born 1808, died 1884 ; a geologist of the keenest 

 insight, who, though he wrote little, was acknowledged by his contemporaries to 

 be one of the greatest of their number. His paper on the Possible Existence of 

 Coal under the South-East of England is a remarkable example of his skill. He 

 specially delighted in reconstructing the geography of former geological periods. 



5 Joseph Prestwich, the living Nestor of English geologists, specially distin- 

 guished for his researches in Tertiary and Post-Tertiary geology, succeeded Phillips 

 in 1874 as Professor of Geology at Oxford, and retired from that office in 1888. 



