142 Notes and Comment 



85, 33. Dr. Wallich: George Charles Wallich (1815-1899), 

 an English authority in marine biology. 



86, ii-i2. " Coccoliths ": berry-shaped stones (Kixxos, a berry, 

 -}- Xf0os, a stone). 



86, 16. " Coccospheres ": a round mass of coccoliths (KtiKKot, 

 a berry, + ff<j>aipa, a sphere). 



86, 19. Mr. Sorby: Henry Clifton Sorby (1826- ), a 

 fellow of the Royal Society and later president of Frith Col- 

 lege, Sheffield. 



88, 10. Polyzoa: many animals (iroXtfs, many, yov, animal). 

 The singular is polyzoon, sometimes polyzoum (Latin). 



88, n. Brachiopoda: arm-footed (ftpaxlw, arm, -\- 7r6vs(iro8-) , 

 foot). 



88, 12. Nautilus: a sailor (murfXcj, poetic form for WI/TIJJ, 

 sailor). See Oliver Wendell Holmes's popular poem, The 

 Chambered Nautilus. 



go, 8. Lyell. See note on lines 17-19, page 69. 



93, i. Hoxne . . . Amiens. The first is in Suffolk, England, 

 the second in northern France. As early as 1800 rude flint 

 instruments, belonging to prehistoric man, were unearthed in 

 both places. 



94, 7. Rev. Mr. Gunn: Robert Campbell Gunn (1808-1881), 

 a noted English naturalist. He emigrated to Tasmania at the 

 age of twenty-one and helped to found the Royal Society of 

 Tasmania. 



94, 15. Writing upon the wall. See Daniel <v, 5. 



94, 22. " The whirligig of time." See Twelfth Night, V, i, 



379- 



95, 28. " The river of Babylon." This phrase does not 

 occur in the Bible; but the Euphrates, on which Babylon was 

 situated, is called " the great river " in Genesis xv, 18. 



97, 14. Australia. The zoology of Australia and Tas- 

 mania is in many respects different from that of any other 

 region. 



98, 5-6. Pterodactyl . . . ichthyosaurus . . . plesiosaurus. 

 The first means -wing-fingered (irrepbv, wing, -}- SdKTiAos, finger), 

 the second fish-lizard (faMs, fish, -\- (raCpos, lizard), the third 

 near-lizard (ir\r)fflos, near,-)- <raOpos, lizard). Note that the 

 prefix plesio- in scientific terms is exactly analogous to the 

 prefix near in such humorous compounds as near-beer, near- 

 poetry, etc. 



