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to give. However when they reached the cross roads, a quarter 

 of a mile from Tollymore, the driver stopped. They objected. 

 This was not Tollymore. The stranger was very indignant and 

 threatened to report the driver. " Do you know," said he " who 

 I am ? I am High Sheriff of Oxford." " I don't care who you 

 are ; not another yard will I go." And they had to get down and walk. 



An English geologist called once to see Mr. Wright and 

 talked to him of the land-ice theory in glaciology, which the latter 

 vigorously opposed. He went on to the Museum to see Stewart. 

 " I have been to see Wright, and do you know he does not believe 

 in the land-ice theory." "Wright is right," said Stewart. "Fossils 

 shoved up by ice on to the mountains ! I would as soon believe 

 they were shoved up there by the moon." 



I quote two incidents from notes which Mr. Swanston has 

 given me. " On one occasion Stewart was anxious to confirm or 

 refute an old record regarding the Maiden-hair Fern in a most 

 unlikely district. The search proved a long and tiresome one. 

 The conditions — metamorphic rocks and boggy moorland — seemed 

 altogether unlikely to yield this true limestone-loving fern, yet the 

 search went on, and the fatigue of a long and toilsome day was 

 rewarded by the finding of a few dwarf plants in a band of 

 primitive limestone at the base of an inland cliff, and with as much 

 satisfaction as if he had made an important new find this old 

 record was confirmed." "Again, on the occasion of a Field Club 

 excursion to Ballintoy, a resident member had kindly employed a 

 number of men to open up a deposit of the Lias underlying a heavy 

 deposit of sand that had always baffled investigation. Stewart was 

 one of the party, but little work could then be done owing to the 

 limited time, and the excessive number of members present, few 

 of whom fully appreciated the value of the exposure. It was 

 therefore promptly decided by him that the opportunity should 

 not be lost of thoroughly examining the beds. A few days later 

 he with a companion were early on the scene provided with a large 

 box in which to pack the fragile specimens. Unfortunately they 



