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Geological Survey should not interfere with each 

 other. It was agreed that the lectures should be 

 given during the first three months of the year, and 

 in the afternoon, so that he could complete his work 

 at Craig's Court before going up to University 

 College. In due course he was appointed to the 

 chair, and now became ' Professor Ramsay/ the name 

 by which he is best known, and which he continued to 

 use for thirty-four years, until knighthood was conferred 

 upon him at the end of his official career. 



The British Association assembled this year for 

 the second time at Oxford. Ramsay made a hurried 

 journey to the meeting, and returned to his field-work 

 in Wales. To him one of the pleasantest features of 

 the week was the presence of his old friend Professor 

 Nichol of Glasgow, whose early kindness he was 

 enabled in some measure to repay by introducing him 

 to a number of men of science whom the astronomer 

 had not before met. From his notes of the meeting a 

 few quotations may here be inserted. 



' 2^tk June. At eleven the business began with 

 Chambers's paper on Raised Beaches. He certainly 

 pushed his conclusions to a most unwarrantable length, 

 and got roughly handled on account of it by Buckland, 

 De la Beche, Sedgwick, Murchison, and Lyell. The 

 last told me afterwards that he did so purposely that 

 C. might see that reasonings in the style of the author 

 of the Vestiges would not be tolerated among scientific 

 men. 



' 28^. Prince Albert, the Crown Prince of Saxe- 

 Weimar, came to our Section while Count Rosen was 

 reading a paper, Murchison in the chair. This de- 

 lighted Sir Roderick. Afterwards Dr. Buckland took 

 the chair. Among others I read a paper on the 



