All, however, tends to greater and greater antiquity of man.

The shingle beds seem to be estuary deposits.
I called on R.Chambers at his very nice house in St.John's Wood, and had a very pleasant half-hour's talk--he is really a capital fellow.

He made one good remark and chuckled over it: that the laymen universally had treated the controversy on the "Essays and Reviews" as a merely professional subject, and had not joined in it but had left it to the clergy.

I shall be anxious for your next letter about Henslow.

Farewell, with sincere sympathy, my old friend.
P.S .-- We are very much obliged for "London Review." We like reading much of it, and the science is incomparably better than in the "Athenaeum." You shall not go on very long sending it, as you will be ruined by pennies and trouble; but I am under a horrid spell to the "Athenaeum" and "Gardeners' Chronicle," both of which are intolerably dull, but I have taken them in for so many years that I cannot give them up.
The "Cottage Gardener," for my purpose, is now far better than the "Gardeners' Chronicle." LETTER 126.