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applause. His raps at Owen through that Quarterly 

 article were very characteristic.' 



The field-work done by the Local Director this 

 summer included the inspection of the mapping of 

 Worcestershire and adjoining areas. He in particular 

 traced the boundaries of the Permian breccias between 

 the Bromsgrove Lickey and the Clent Hills, and had 

 his curiosity kindled by the extraordinary character of 

 these rocks. At intervals he renewed his study of 

 them during the next few years, and came to the 

 conclusion that they proved the existence of Palaeozoic 

 glaciers an announcement which he made at the 

 Liverpool meeting of the British Association in 1854. 



The marriage of Professor Ramsay and Miss 

 Louisa Williams took place at Llanfairynghornwy on 

 the 2Oth July, and two days later he found himself 

 for the first time in his life in a foreign country. 

 Reaching Ostend, the newly-married pair made their 

 way slowly through Belgium to Cologne, up the Rhine 

 to Basle, where they called on Schonbein and supped 

 with Peter Merian, thence to Zurich, and so into the 

 Oberland and the western Alps. For the first time 

 Ramsay now beheld true mountains and actual glaciers. 

 At the first distant glimpse of the Alps he says that he 

 ' opened his eyes so wide that he feared they never 

 would close again.' What geologist can ever forget 

 his first transports at such a sight ! How Ramsay's 

 eye caught up the points of special geological interest, 

 while at the same time revelling in all the glories of 

 mountain form, may be shown in a few citations from 

 his diary. 



' ytk August. As we crossed [the Lake of 

 Lucerne] to Weggis, for the first time we saw a 

 glacier far away towards the summit of the Uri Roth 



