Stuk 149 - James David Forbes to William Whewell

St. Andrew's - JDF thanks Lady Affleck for the literary remains of Robert L. Ellis - 'the best monument that can be erected to the memory of an intellectual man'. He has received interesting correspondence from 'a certain Mr Reily, an Irish gentleman of fortune formerly of Oxford, and now bitten with Alpine mania. He has taken the disorder however in a much more rational and thorough-going way than most of the members of that long legged fraternity'. JDF invited him to Scotland and gave him lessons in using the Theodolite, which he then took with him to Switzerland: 'He has made a beautiful little map founded on his own survey'.