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differs somewhat from my statement in the text. This fossil should 

 have been described as " derived : found in the Alveolina limestone 

 at Miram Shah, east of Dandi plain." G. C. Crick. 



British Museum (Natural History). 

 December ISth, 1901. 



THE MEANING OF THE WORD ' DEUTOZOIC 



Sir, — May I request some better Greek scholar than myself to 

 tell me the meaning of the word ' Deutozoic,' which appears in 

 the title of an article in your Magazine for last December (p. 591). 

 The second half leads me to suppose it has been formed from that 

 language, but I have searched my Lexicon (a large one) in vain 

 for any such word as deutos. Our old acquaintance dno, which 

 survives in several languages — two in English — has a comparative 

 deuteros (second) and occasionally a superlative deutatos (the last), 

 but obviously the former would make ' Deuterozoic' I find indeed 

 a word denfe (' hither' or ' come on ! '), but that would make nonsense. 

 Perhaps, however, the word has been fabricated or quoted at this 

 time to show that ' compulsory Greek ' at Oxford and Cambridge 

 is no real protection to the language. T. G. Bonney. 



OBIa?TJ.i^I^^*. 



GEORGE VIVIAN POORE, M.D., F.R.C.P. 



Born September 23, 1843. Died November 23, 1904. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. G. V. Poore (formerly 

 medical attendant to H.E.H. the Duke of Edinburgh on board the 

 ' Galatea,' and afterwards to H.R.H. Prince Leopold, Duke of 

 Albany), Consulting Physician to University College Hospital, and 

 one of the leading authorities on Sanitary Science. In his " London, 

 Ancient and Modern " (Cassell & Co., 1889), the author treats of the 

 condition of the city and its suburbs and the health of its inhabitants 

 in the past 300 years, and it is full of interesting historical matter 

 and excellent observations on the form and nature of the ground, 

 of springs and wells, and sanitation. In his latest published work 

 entitled " The Earth in relation to the preservation and destruction 

 of Contagia " (1902), he dealt with many matters in which medical 

 science and geology are intimately concerned, such as soils and 

 water-supply, drainage, military camps, etc. In this, as in previously 

 published works, he condemned those " systems of sewerage which 

 carried away from the soil matters capable of enriching it," and h© 

 justified his conclusions by reference to personal experiments on 

 his own property at Andover. 



