Notes and Comment 141 



71, x. Bursch: a German student. 



72, 21. " Erdkunde ": " earth-knowledge." 



ON A PIECE OF CHALK 

 (See Introduction, pp. xxiii-xxiv) 



[A map should be used in the study of this lecture.] 



74, 17. Albion: literally "white land," so called from the 

 chalk cliffs of the southern coast. 



74, 26. Weald. The Weald (pronounced wield and mean- 

 ing originally the wilds) is an oval-shaped area bounded by a 

 line that begins near the Straits of Dover and passes through 

 the counties of Kent, Surrey, Hants, and Sussex, meeting the 

 sea again at Beachy Head. 



76, 29-30. Though ignorant of all other history. Could 

 not this clause be better placed? Try it after that or man 

 or know in line 27. 



77, 31-32. Stalagmites and stalactites. Both are cone- 

 like, but the former rise from the floor of the cavern while the 

 latter hang from the roof. 



78, 13. Laminated: having lamina, that is, thin plates or 

 scales. 



80, 4. Globigerina. The second g is pronounced as j and 

 the accent is on the next to the last syllable, the i having the 

 usual English long sound. 



81, 7. Lieut. Brooke: John Mercer Brooke (1826-1906), the 

 inventor also of the Brooke gun. 



81, 16. Ehrenberg: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795- 

 1876), a German naturalist, noted for his study of minute 

 water-plants and animals. 



81, 17. Bailey: Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811-1857), a West 

 Point graduate and professor. 



81, 25. Telegraph-cable. Cyrus W. Field (1819-1892), of 

 New York, stretched a cable from the American coast to New- 

 foundland in 1856. Ten years later he continued it to England. 



81, 32. Captain Dayman: one of the lieutenants of the 

 Rattlesnake. See Introduction ix. 



85, 30. Star-fish. Notice that in this note Huxley uses the 

 two plurals, star-fish and star-fishes (86, 28), interchangeably. 



