cit.) on the same grounds as you had, and he made some answer, which partially satisfied me, but really I am so stupid I cannot remember it.

He insisted strongly on the fewness of the species absolutely peculiar to the Azores--most of the non-European species being common to Madeira.

I had thought that a good sprinkling were absolutely peculiar.

Till I saw him last Wednesday I thought he had not a leg to stand on in his geology about his post-Miocene land; and his reasons, upon reflection, seem rather weak: the main one is that there are no deposits (more recent than the Miocene age) on the Miocene strata of Malta, etc., but I feel pretty sure that this cannot be trusted as evidence that Malta must have been above water during all the post-Miocene period.

He had one other reason, to my mind still less trustworthy.