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Saturday Review. Sometimes these were criticisms 

 of publications, and in that case often took as their 

 subject the maps and memoirs of some Colonial 

 Survey. He was thus enabled to do signal service 

 to his friend Logan, then struggling with the Canadian 

 Philistines, who saw no practical good in geological 

 work of any kind. But now and then he let his 

 fancy loose in the pages of the Saturday, and treated 

 geological and other topics with the light playfulness 

 so characteristic of his talk, but in which the nature 

 of his official writings hardly allowed him to indulge 

 in print. 



VII. But it is not by the visible amount of published 

 work that we can rightly estimate the extent of Sir 

 Andrew Ramsay's influence in promoting the advance 

 of his favourite science. For nearly thirty years he 

 was a teacher of geology. Year by year a fresh band 

 of young men came to listen to him, and to carry the 

 fruits of his instruction to all parts of the world. 

 Season after season he lectured to working men, who 

 flocked in hundreds to hear him. His lectures were 

 not written out, but delivered from notes, and were 

 always kept up to the latest conditions of the science. 

 Many a time some new deduction that had been 

 simmering in his mind for a while would be communi- 

 cated first of all to his students. In the debates at 

 the Geological Society, also, he would often make 

 known some fresh observation, or some novel present- 

 ation of known facts, or some suggestive speculation 

 which had recently taken shape in his mind. Indeed, 

 much of his work was published only in this way, 

 for writing became increasingly irksome to him ; but 

 in the excitement of lecturing or of discussion he 

 would pour out from his full stores of information, 



