Genre:

News-Digest, Drollery

Subjects:

Geology, Travel, Scientific Practitioners

    Responds to Charles Lyell's remark that the three things necessary for a geologist are travel, travel, and travel. Infers that geologist must travel over the earth's surface in order to explore its interior. Glad that this does not apply to the exploration of other objects that are round (plum-puddings) and which have crusts (mince-pies).