After the expiration of twelve months, Mr. A. R. Hunt, who was present at the meeting of the British Association at Belfast, has published in your September number a criticism on my address. His paper deals with a variety of matters with which I need not concern myself. His remarks on tourmaline have reference to another author, and not to anything I have written on that subject. He also passes strictures on what he calls “incidental geology,” but as he includes Lord Kelvin and Canon Bonney with me in his condemnation, I can only congratulate myself on being in such good company.