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ceous plant whose leaf-scars were large and circular, and whose 
scales were as numerous and small as those of a Lycopod, we could 
realise all the conditions of Ulodendron ; and, secondly, that U. majus 
and U. minus are probably identical. (5.) Mr. F. J. Foot’s interest- 
ing account of a boulder of Limestone in the Shannon, shifted some 
fifty yards by the ice in the cold and stormy winter of 1855, in near. 
proximity to another ice-carried boulder belonging to the Glacial 
Period, and consisting of jasper, the parent rock of which is recog- 
nized six miles off. 
V. Tue ‘ Furint ImeLteMents’ From Drirt, Not AUTHENTIC. BEING 
A Repty To THE GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES OF THE ANTIQUITY 
or Man. By Nicwotas Wuittey, &c. 8vo., pp. 59. Lone- 
MANS & Co., London; and NetHerTOoN, Truro. 1865. 
S it of use to draw attention to obstinately one-sided views of 
facts, and to dogmatic negations of what experts have seen 
reason to believe? If it be, the good can only consist in informing 
the persistent jibber that other people are going forward, and leaving 
his point of view behind,—in telling those not yet acquainted with 
the matter, that wider experience, better knowledge of natural 
objects, and more matured conclusions than those offered by the 
partial dogmatist, have been submitted to the public,—and in re- 
minding ourselves that patience is required in teaching those who 
come to be taught, and extreme patience in arguing with those who 
teach themselves,—and that the lingering stragglers in the march of 
science, who will bandy old arguments and waste their time with 
false notions, must not do more mischief, if it can be helped, than 
lose their own place in the ranks. 
We are not, at present, sufficiently interested in the matter to go 
over all the subject of Flint Implements,—how nature breaks flints, 
how man breaks them, and has broken them, and has used both the 
natural and the artificial fragments for tools and weapons of many 
kinds ;—much less will we here offer a dissertation on the flints 
variously chipped into chisels, hammers, adzes, wedges, &c.,— 
whether archaic or historic: the English reader has Prestwich, 
Evans, Lyell, Lubbock, and others, to teach him, if he does not know 
already. Mr. Whitley offers nothing but doubts, which have already 
had full consideration from those who really know how flint behaves 
under frost and under blows, and who know what early men, such 
as the cave-dwellers of Dordogne, really did with flint, in what 
forms they chipped it, what they used, and what they wasted. Mr. 
Whitley says that, as a land-surveyor, he has seen much to teach 
him geology, and to enable him to venture on a controversy about 
Flint Implements: he observes, too, that William Smith, the father 
of English Geology, and Bernard Palissy, a pioneer of Geology in 
France, were also land-surveyors. So we hope to have better results 
of his experience by-and-by,—maybe to equal theirs ;—but in the 
meantime, re-quoting from his essay ‘the notable saying of Locke,’ 
we have, in this would-be ‘ Reply,’ another instance that ‘men see a 
little, presume a great deal, and so jump to the conclusion.’ 
