56 LIFE OF BENJAMIN blLLIMAN. 



without acknowledgment When I say your 



M..I exactly suited to the United States, I think 



a formed rather too much on our English patterns, 



whi. : r are not themselves suited to the general 



of tlu- Knglish reader. The Journal of our civil 



is the kind of book that America wants, and I 



IK 'iid its information might be combined with more 



:itic articles. The Journals in France have also de- 



.1 lately. I mean of course the scientific ones. But 



I am afraid I have tired you with hints and queries that 



may be of little use. 



FROM MR. BAKEWELL. 



HAMPSTEAD, July 28, 1836. 



< IKOLOGY is in a rather strange state in England 



at present ; the rich clergy begin to tremble for their in- 



1 seek to avert their fate by a revived zeal for 



orthodoxy, and arc- making a great clamor against geology 



poM-d to (Jenesis. I have no doubt this is the prime 



\\hy Hnckland's IJridgcwatcr treatise, though an- 



:.d rcvieued in the, " Quarterly" last May, has not 



ppraml. I have no doubt the reviewer was 



who at the bottom hates liuckland cordially, as I am in- 

 formed by Mantell. The reviewer brought forward all 

 those points which Auckland would have been glad to pass 

 ". namely, that 15. had now given up the 

 liian delude, so far as it was to explain any geological 

 !atinr how much he differed from 

 -tint of creation in (ienesis. Oxford, where 

 is a ( 'anon, has been thrown into a great fer- 

 I>r. Ilampdcn's free opinions, and the geologists 

 have for a share of the censure. In England the 



B new names and new theories is sinking 

 n the opinion of well-judging people. The Eocene, 

 Mi" 1 ! 1 Miocene, these names, as Sedgwick says, 



