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HUGHES : ADAM SEDGWICK. 
a great piece of the upper series with the lower unconformable beds ? 
Alas ! that was not done, he swept into his Silurian, all Sedgwick’s 
Cambrian, down to the base of the Bala beds, and finding no break 
there, from time to time took in more of it till he left him at last 
only the lowest group, the Harlech, Llanberis, and Bangor beds. 
Well, what next? Will it be believed that he now tried to 
throw the blame of his mistakes on Sedgwick ; said, moreover, that 
it was his friends of the Survey, who applied the term Silurian to 
the slaty rocks of the western part of Wales ? 
It was no small injustice that wrung from the unselfish, noble 
Sedgwick such reproachful words, and that sent him to bis grave 
with a sense of unrighted wrongs, of faithless friends and ungen- 
erous enemies. 
Is it good for the world that generosity and unselfishness shall 
be for ever unrecognised ? Is it good for the student of science to 
feel that self-assertion is the chief requisite for success ? The better 
nature of man rebels against such thing’s. Many a one whose nature 
inclines him to share his last loaf with his hungry brother-man, may 
find the streams of charity dry within him, as he learns that he has 
been again and again cheated, and that when the world learned it 
was so, it coldly turned away. 
But I would not end with this sad story. 
Sedgwick’s was a nature charged to the full with human sym- 
pathy. Bring joy near him, and he rejoiced ; bring sorrow before 
him, and his pity overflowed in consolation ; out of the fulness of 
his heart, his mouth spoke unmeasured unpremeditated words of 
gladness, or of sympathy. And though the friends of his youth 
passed away as shadows, he ever gathered round him the young and 
happy, and caught some of their life. Full of interest in all that 
was going on around him, the brave old man died in harness ; and in 
1873 was buried with the great men among whose memories he had 
so long lived. A simple A.S. marks the spot where his body was 
laid in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge. 
