[30] Ut suprà, p. 256.
[31] Further work has not verified some of these statements. There can be no question that a great deal of rock in the Alps is much older than even the Trias. The apparent superposition of crystalline schists to rocks with fossils is due to over-folding or over-thrust faulting—i.e. the schists are the older rocks. Though the Secondary rocks of the Alps have undergone, in places, some modification and mineral changes, these are very different from the metamorphism of those crystalline schists which have a stratified origin.
[32] Now "University College," London, having been incorporated by Royal Charter under that title in November, 1836.
[33] Ut suprà, p. 258.
[34] Life, Letters, and Journals, vol. i. pp. 269-271.
[35] When he left the publisher had not decided whether it should be issued at once or kept back till October.
[36] D'Aubuisson, as time has shown, foresaw a real danger. The neglect of, if not contempt for, mineralogy, which became conspicuous between the years 1840 and 1870, or thereabouts, seriously impeded the progress of geology, at any rate in England.
[37] Life, Letters, and Journals, vol. i. p. 276.
[38] Life, Letters, and Journals, vol. i. p. 283.
[39] Life, Letters, and Journals, vol. i. p. 296.