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offer of an appointment to the 

 Geological Survey of India, 63 ; 

 first speech at Geological Society, 64 



Chap. III. 1845-1846. His 

 position as Local Director, 66 ; new 

 duties assigned to him, 68 ; the 

 task of inspecting the work of his 

 colleagues, 68 ; his experiences with 

 the Survey accounts, 70 ; relation to 

 Irish Survey, 71 ; at Cambridge 

 meeting of British Association 

 (1845), 73 > buys a pony for field 

 work, 75 '> verses by, 76 ; in London 

 (1845-46), 77 ; in North Wales, 79 ; 

 his essay on " Denudation of South 

 Wales " published, 84 ; criticised by 

 Darwin, 85 ; criticised by Lyell, 85 ; 

 reply to Lyell, 88 ; on disturbance 

 and upheaval, 89 ; on denudation, 

 90 ; on geological time, 90 ; ex- 

 presses his indebtedness to Lyell, 

 92 ; invited to give a Friday evening 

 discourse at Royal Institution, 95 ; 

 returns home for Christmas, 95 ; 

 rhyming letter to his mother, 95 



Chap. IV. 1847-1848. Dis- 

 course to Royal Institution, 98 ; 

 mapping volcanic rocks in Wales, 

 99 ; offered Chair of Geology at 

 University College, London, 101 ; 

 accepts the professorship, 103 ; at- 

 tends British Association at Oxford, 

 103 ; resumes work in North Wales, 

 105 ; accompanies De la Beche in a 

 tour to Llanberis, etc., 105 ; first 

 ascent of Snowdon, 106 ; accident 

 on Glydyr fawr, 107 ; first visit to 

 Anglesey, 107 ; works at his lectures, 

 108, 115, 1 16; his sketching powers, 

 no, 116; his love of antiquities, 

 ill, 188, 246; finds the Wenlock 

 unconformability and fossils in sup- 

 posed "greenstones", 112; studies 

 Welsh, 112; verses by, 113; gives 

 his introductory lecture, 1 1 8 ; first 

 course of lectures, 119; elected into 

 the Geological Club, 121 ; speaks 

 at Geological Society, 1 23 ; elected 

 a member of council of the Geologi- 

 cal Society, 123 ; reads a paper at 

 the Geological Society, 124 ; obtains 

 concession as to the reading of papers 

 by officers of Survey, 1 26 ; loyalty 

 to De la Beche, 127 ; in the Chartist 

 scare of 1848, 129; visits Darwin, 

 130 



Chap. .1848-1851. Begins 

 the survey of the Snowdon region, 

 132 ; secretary of Section C at 

 British Association 1848, 135 ; as a 

 mountaineer, 136; receives a lesson 

 in glacial geology from R. Chambers, 

 137 ; review of Lyell's Elementary 

 Manual, 138 ; at dinner at Murchi- 

 son's, 146 ; friendship with Jukes, 

 147 ; elected into Royal Society, 



147 ; resumes work at Llanberis, 



148 ; on sinking for coal near Caer- 

 narvon, 148 ; hampered by mist in 

 the Snowdon country, 1 50 ; stationed 

 at Capel Curig, 153 ; first impressions 

 of Anglesey geology, 1 54 ; on the 

 Wernerian School, 155 ; sonnet by, 

 157 ; on Cowper and Luther, 157 ; 

 life in London, 158 ; discourse at 

 Royal Institution, 159 ; first publicly 

 expresses his opinion on the glacia- 

 tion of Wales, 1 60 ; writes two songs 

 for Survey dinner, 160; returns to 

 field-work in North Wales, 161 ; cor- 

 rects De la Beche's work in North 

 Wales, 163, 190; runs sections in the 

 Snowdon region, 163 ; at British 

 Association, Edinburgh, 165 ; on 

 glacial drift in Wales, 1 68 ; first visit 

 to Ireland, 169; verses on Oldham's 

 marriage, 169 ; work in Anglesey, 

 170 ; makes the acquaintance of the 

 Rector of Llanfairynghornwy and his 

 family, 173; songs by, 176; reads 

 his first paper on glacial geology, 

 177; in the Isle of Wight with 

 Lyell and Forbes, 180 



Chap.Nl. 1851-1853. Resigns 

 his professorship in University Col- 

 lege, and is appointed to School of 

 Mines, 186 ; his power as an in- 

 structor in the field, 187 ; on English 

 scenery, 188 ; on antiquities and 

 provincialisms, 188; metrical epistle 

 to Salter, 189; tour in Anglesey 

 with De la Beche, 1 90 ; account of 

 last excursion with the Director- 

 General in Wales, 190 ; on Welsh 

 words, 192 ; with Selwyn in the 

 Dolgelli region, 193 ; engagement 

 to Miss Williams, 193 ; opens his 

 course of lectures at the School of 

 mines, 196; on controversy between 

 Sedgwick and Murchison, 197 ; in- 

 vestigates the Permian breccias of 

 Worcestershire, etc., 198 ; marriage, 



