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it without grumbling, and possibly even with tolerable 

 satisfaction. 



First, Scotland is to be raised to a special branch 

 like Ireland, and Geikie is to be Director. Second, I 

 am to get another ^100 a year, to continue in charge 

 of England and Wales, to drop the * Local ' before 

 Director, and to be ranked as Senior Director. I am 

 to have two * District Surveyors ' under me, who will 

 be Aveline and Bristow ; two first-class senior 

 geologists, eight second-class, and the rest as before, 

 except that we shall have a large addition to the staff. 

 There would be no use objecting to anything, even if 

 there be anything to object to, for the Duke and My 

 Lords have ruled it, I believe, without reference to Sir 

 Roderick. ... I think I have written Sir Roderick a 

 very good letter, without any grumblings at all. I 

 have only compared myself to the Emperor of Austria, 

 losing not Venice, but his German native dominions, 

 and increasing his revenue thereby, and I have 

 approved of all the other details. 



HAZELHEAD, SHEFFIELD, 

 Atth December 1866. 



MY DEAREST WIFE This is an awful day of 

 wind and rain, and this is my tenth, and I hope my 

 last letter. 



From a very official letter Sir R. wrote me, I was 

 afraid he had taken amiss the way I took these 

 changes. But to-day I have had a very long and 

 pleasant letter from him telling me that that was by 

 no means the case, and that he wrote the short official 

 simply because the subject was strictly of that nature, 

 and he was communicating a copy of Cole's official 

 bearing My Lords' pleasure. He also tells me that 



