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sojourn at Bonn, I may mention Dr. Klausen, who 

 lectured on mythology ; Professor Moggerath, Dr. Sach, 

 and Professor Walter, whose subjects were moral philo- 

 sophy and law ; Professor Goldfuss, Professor Mendels- 

 sohn (grandson of the composer), and Schlegel : above 

 all, Baron von Buch, the geologist, with whose vigorous 

 mind and enormous attainments Forbes seems to have 

 been particularly struck. 1 



The following account of their meeting is taken from 

 Forbes's own journals : 



Journal, June 15. 



' Finding Von Buch here, I left my letter from Pro- 

 fessor Jameson for him, and in the course of an hour he 

 called. 1 was instantly charmed with the kindness and 

 simplicity of his manner ; and as I could see at once that 

 his character for singularity was not one which I had any 

 reason to fear, we were immediately excellent friends. 



' June 16th. Von Buch having given me last evening 



his paper on craters of elevation, I left for him one of 



mine on the same subject, as well as another on the 



Pyrenean springs, and this morning I had a visit from 



him, and a long conversation on the latter subject. He 



expressed himself as being much struck with my paper, 



and thought my remarks on the influence of granite, at 



junction with other rocks, on springs, original. . . . 



A It "Aether he was much pleased with it. As to the 



history of the elevation theory, he states that he first 



pointed out four elevations l.rlmmmn- t<> diilerent epochs 



all of which arc well seen in ( irinmi's map of (Icrmany 



iiirfly by tracing the river-courses. The mountains 



it toe Kibe form one system, die Taunus mountains 



'her, tin; Seh\vart/.-\\ aid a third, and the Alps a 



h ; . . . pointing out, as evidence of the compara- 



ly recent elevation of the latter, the inclination of 



the tertiary strata. He oives Elie de iJcaunmnt the 



lit of finding exact criteria for determining epochs of 



n, but attached little probability to the the<ny 



of parellclisra on a large scale, con-idei m;.. the sysl 



