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trying for professorships in Australia, Japan, Aberyst- 

 with, and Eton the latter a mastership. I have 

 had the nomination of a man to the University in the 

 capital of Japan, as Professor of Geology. Then I am 

 driven wild by invitations for self and lady to all sorts 

 of public soirees three for this very night, to only 

 the quietest of which I will go. However, I have 

 made up my mind to dine with the Lord Mayor, and 

 I will take Louisa to the soiree of the Society of Arts. 

 ... I have had a letter to-day from America, and the 

 ' critter ' encloses another sheet giving a sketch of my 

 life, and asking me to fill in some blanks and correct it 

 and send it back for publication in Appletoris American 

 Cyclopedia ! I am laughing consumedly. Ever 

 affectionately, ANDW. C. RAMSAY. 



During the summer and autumn he was again busy 

 in Wales, and from time to time he sent me tidings of 

 his doings. From his letters to me the following 

 sentences are taken. 



' 27 tk July. There has been no practicable weather 

 till yesterday. It is fine now, and I start for Merioneth- 

 shire on Thursday. The book is not in a state to 

 make any further progress till more work is done in 

 the field. I had brought it up to that point. 



' \'2th August. Here [Beaumaris] and in Mon- 

 mouthshire, Etheridge and I are hard at work. In the 

 mountains about Dolgelli I have Ward and Hebert, 

 having shown them the sections and the needful line 

 to add to the map. I am not fit for daily high 

 mountain work on a large scale now. 



'The case stands thus: We have (i) Lingula 

 Flags, (2) Tremadoc Slates, (3) Arenig beds, which in 

 my Memoir are called Lower Llandeilo or Arenig beds, 



