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the Bishop of Oviedo, my last sermon ‘ne sent pas de l'apoplexie.’
I have, nevertheless, been desperately out of sorts and full of gout and liver and all kinds of irritation this summer, which is the first for many a long year in which I have been unable to take the field.
The meeting at Birmingham, however, revived me. Professor W. Rogers will have told you all about our doings.
Buckland is up to his neck in ‘sewage,’ and wishes to change all underground London into a fossil cloaca of pseudo coprolites.
This does not quite suit the chemists charged with sanitary responsibilities; for they fear the Dean will poison half the population in preparing his choice manures!
But in this as in everything he undertakes there is a grand sweeping view.
When are we to meet again?
And when are we to have a ‘stand — up fight’ on the erratics of the Alps?
You will see by the abstract of my memoir appended to my Alpine affair that I have taken the field against the extension of the Jura!
In a word, I do not believe that great trunk glaciers ever filled the valleys of the Rhone, etc. Perhaps you will be present at our next meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh, August,
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