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conjecture. And it is founded on the most ridiculous confusion 

 between space and time, between place and period, as I have 

 argued throughout "Eain and Eivers. " 



Mr. Baily will not, I am sure, think that I intend to attack him. 

 I attack the received doctrine which Mr. Baily supports ; and I must 

 confess that I am the twelfth juryman who complained of his eleven 

 obstinate compeers. — I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient, and most obliged, 



Geokge Greenwood, Colonel. 

 BaooKwooD Park, Alresfoed, 

 I2ih July, 1867. 



OEITTJ^^I^'Z". 



William John Hamilton, F.R.S., G.S., etc. — It is with sincere 

 regret that we have to record the loss which the science of geology, 

 very many personal friends, its cultivators, and, above all, the 

 Geological Society of London, has sustained by the premature 

 decease of Mr. William Hamilton, a loss which can be but very 

 imperfectly replaced, owing to his long official connexion with that 

 Society, and his accurate knowledge of its affairs. Mr. Hamilton 

 became a member of the Geological Society in 1831, and in the 

 following year was elected one of its honorary secretaries, which 

 office, or else that of Foreign Secretary, he continued to occupy 

 almost uninterruptedly till 1854, when he was elected its President. 

 Mr. Hamilton's first contribution to geologj'' dates back to 1835, 

 from observations made in the previous year, and relates to the 

 proofs of recent elevation of tlie land, which he had observed on the 

 coast of Fifeshire. About this time, and, as is generally understood, 

 at the suggestion of the present Sir E. Murchison, Mr. Hamilton 

 formed the plan of an extended foreign tour for the purpose of 

 studying the phenomena of physical geography and geology ; 

 through him also he became acquainted with the late Mr. Hugh 

 Strickland, which resulted in their becoming fellow travellers ; the 

 partnership was a judicious combination, and Mr. Hamilton con- 

 stantly acknowledges the value of Mr. Strickland's great knowledge 

 in various branches of natural history. 



The limits of such a notice as the present preclude even a sum- 

 vaKxy of Mr. Hamilton's travels. They were commenced in the 

 summer of 1835. Beginning with the extinct volcanic districts and 

 old lacustrine areas of the Mont Dor and the Vivarais, as prepara- 

 tory to visiting those of Asia Minor, they thence passed by the 

 North of Italy, Trieste, Corfu, Patras, Corinth, Athens. They 

 reached Smyrna by the end of October, having visited much that 

 was of interest on their way. Mr. Strickland was called back to 

 England in the early part of 1836, after wliich Mr. Hamilton con- 

 tinued his travels alone, but some papers, the results of their joint 

 observations, were communicated to the Geological Society. 



The summer of 1836 was spent in the country' to the south of the 

 Black Sea, returning to Smyrna by November. He then accepted 



