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pai't of this year he thus refers to this paper in a letter to 

 Mr Culley :— 



3, Bryansfcone Place. 



" Your last letter merited a more prompt reply, bat I waited so 

 long, and at length I have almost been expecting your daily arrival 

 in the Metropolis. To keep yon alive respecting our proceedings I 

 send you the abstract of my paper, which has been referred to 

 Professor Sedgewick of Cambridge, and has been ordered to be printed 

 in the forthcoming volume, so that I expect it to see the light in May. 

 In mentioning you, I distinctly state that you have a paper nearly 

 ready upon the geology of the primitive tracts of Sutherland, and 

 therefore you are clapped into the harness and mutit work. The 

 Banniskirk fish are at Paris, waiting for Cnvier's decision. I have 

 now not the least doubt but that we shall make out the strata of the 

 B. of Caithness and those of Ross, Cromarty, etc., to be equivalents 

 of the New Red. I was obliged to bring in the fish to back me np in 

 my idea of the Oolitic Series on that coast (including the lias of the 

 coast near the Saters) being followed by the New Red ; bat I take 

 care to mention that your excellency first sent us these perch to 

 dress. Our last paper of Poulette Scrope's apon the volcanic district 

 of the Phlegrajan fields round Naples excited much discussion which I 

 wish you had heard. Oar new President, my friend Fitters, gives 

 most agreeable Sunday evening soirees. Come amongst us ! and 

 believe me, always yours sincerely, etc." 



Mr Murchison revisited the North of Scotland in 1827, 

 accompanied by Professor Sedgewick of Cambridge, and com- 

 posed two, still more, exhaustive papers on the geology of 

 Sutherland and Ross. The second paper was written in 

 conjunction with Professor Sedgewick, and both were printed 

 in the Transactions of the Geological Society. In 1829, Pro- 

 fessor Sedgewick was in the North, and visited Mr Culley at 

 Coupland Castle. The following letter from him to Mr Culley, 

 speaking of this visit and of his journey along the Tweed, is 

 not without interest : — 



AthensBum Club, Tuesday evening, Jan. 5, 1831. 



" I have just procured a frank, and shall therefore send my new 

 year's greetings by a cheap messenger. A hundred times since we 

 parted amidst the Berwick patriots I have intended to write to you 

 to thank you over again for your kind hospitalities, your lectures, on 

 the Cheviot Porphyries, and your safe guidance thro' the Scotch 



