Correspondence — J. R. Bakyns — " Verhum Sap." 575 



(3) The peculiar and original fashion of chipping the flint 

 perpendicularly through the thickness so as to remove the natural 

 edge (sharp and rough) of the stone, and the general absence of 

 work on the sides of the tool. (4) The collective facies of the 

 mass, unembarrassed by admixture of forms known as Palasolithic. 

 And lastly to (5) a very decided declaration that after many years' 

 study of stone implements from various countries and ages, he had 

 never seen an eolith amongst palgeoliths, or a palasolith amongst 

 eoliths. 



In conclusion, he declared his unhesitating concurrence with 

 those more learned and skilful observers who believed that in the 

 so-called Eolithic remains Mr. Harrison had revealed the fossil 

 indications of the mind and purpose of a race of men long anterior 

 to that of the Palaeolithic record, and confirmed a precedent geological 

 era for the habitation in this country of Man, actually qualified 

 by invention, design, skill, purpose, and perseverance — still the 

 fundamental characteristics of the race — which with the great 

 development and inheritance of civilization, the arts, and literature, 

 is now possessing the earth. 



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FAXE OR FAXOE. 

 Sir, — I recently saw it stated in the Geological Magazine that 

 Faxe is the correct name of the well-known locality for fossils in 

 Zealand, and that the name Faxoe used by Dai'win and others is 

 impossible, as the place is not an island. This is not conclusive. 

 May not the place have formerly been an island, and may not Faxe 

 be a modern corruption of an older name Faxoe ? It is well known 

 to philologists, and to all who have paid any attention to place- 

 names, that there are many places which are proved by their names 

 to have once been islands, though they are no longer so. The late 

 Isaac Taylor, in his interesting book, " Words and Places," mentions 

 several such names in the Valley of the Thames and in the Eastern 

 Counties, as well as elsewhere. J. E. Dakyns. 



Snowdon View, Gwynant, Beddgelert. 



FOSSILS WITH GARNETS. 

 SiK, — Verbum sapientibus contains in itself no proposition : it 

 may equally be either sat sap. or sat upon insip. ; in this style, 

 " Words are worth nothing, therefore take mine." But certainly, 

 in a case like the present, where statements of opposite import are 

 both alike quotations from the " traditions of the elders," the old 

 motto of the Koyal Society, for those in a position to adopt it, 

 Nullius per verba, is the best Verbum Sap. 



THE CIRCULATION OF SALT. 

 Sir, — In connection with recent questions concerning the circu- 

 lation of salt I would like to call attention to a curious phenomenon 

 described by Messrs. F. W. and W, 0. Crosby in the Technology 

 Quarterly (U.S.A.), vol. ix, No. 1, March, 1896. I refer to the 



