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Letter 557 own new matter in within six weeks. Your intention of being 

 in Southampton will much strengthen mine, and I shall be 

 very glad to hear some of your American Geology news. 



Letter 558 To L. Horner. 



Down, Sunday [Jan. 1847]. 



Your most agreeable praise of my book 1 is enough to turn 

 my head ; I am really surprised at it, but shall swallow it 

 with very much gusto. . . . 



E. de Beaumont measured the inclination with a sextant 

 and artificial horizon, just as you take the height of the sun 

 for latitude. 



With respect to my Journal, I think the sketches in the 

 second edition 2 are pretty accurate ; but in the first they are 

 not so, for I foolishly trusted to my memory, and was much 

 annoyed to find how hasty and inaccurate many of my 

 remarks were, when I went over my huge pile of descriptions 

 of each locality. 



If ever you meet anyone circumstanced as I was, advise 

 him not, on any account, to give any sketches until his 

 materials are fully worked out. 



What labour you must be undergoing now ; I have 

 wondered at your patience in having written to me two such 

 long notes. How glad Mrs. Horner will be when your address 3 

 is completed. I must say that I am much pleased that you 

 will notice my volume in your address, for former Presidents 

 took no notice of my two former volumes. 



I am exceedingly glad that Bunbury 4 is going on well. 



1 Geological Obse?'vations in S. America, London, 1846. 



2 Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of 

 the Countries visited during the Voyage of H. M.S. " Beagle." Ed. II. 

 London, 1845. 



3 Anniversary Address of the President {Quart, fourn. Geol. Soc. 

 Vol. III., p. xxii, 1847). 



4 Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, Bart. (1809-85), was born at 

 Messina in 1809, and in 1829 entered Trinity College, Cambridge. At 

 the end of 1837 he went with Sir George Napier to the Cape of Good Hope, 

 and during a residence there of twelve months Bunbury devoted him- 

 self to botanical field-work, and afterwards (1848) published his Journal 

 of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope. In 1844 Bunbury married 

 the second daughter of Mr. Leonard Horner, Lady Lyell's sister. 



In addition to several papers dealing with systematic and geographical 



