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presented by the Governors of the New Zealand Institute," or by the 

 Science Library of the Education Department, which has been 

 attempting to procure it through the usual agents. My attention 

 was drawn to it by Dr. Wilckens' excellent abstracts in Neues 

 Jahrhiich fur Ifineralogie, 1905, II, which reached England after my 

 paper had gone to press. It is intelligible that Professor Park 

 should send his fossils to Freiburg for determination ; but it is hard 

 that British paleontologists, who at least try to do their best, should 

 have to learn of the admirable work of their New Zealand brethren 

 from a German publication. F. A, Bather. 



December bth, 1905. 



THE SEPARATE EXISTENCE OF GEOLOGY AS A SCIENCE. 



SiK, — I observe in the Anniversary Address of the President of 

 the Geological Society (John Edward Marr), 17th February, 1905, 

 p. xi, the following paragraph : — " It is not wonderful that in these 

 circumstances there appears to be a feeling among some that geology 

 as a separate science will become extinct." I have met with 

 statements somewhat akin to this which have drawn my 

 attention to the subject. Geology is the history of the earth, 

 and therefore includes all other sciences and all natural knowledge 

 (except the abstract sciences). Therefore, if geology as a science 

 is to become extinct it can only be as regards the name (unless, 

 indeed, it is meant that the human race is to become extinct), 

 for as long as a reasoning being exists on the earth there must be 

 some kind of a history of the earth. Astronomy, biology, 

 mineralogy, etc., are merely branches of this science. 



I would remark also on a statement in the Address of H. A. Miers to 

 the Geological Section of the British Association in South Africa, 

 wherein he says he has no claim to be called a geologist. If a man 

 who has a profound knowledge of some departments of geology, and, 

 it may be presumed, a good general knowledge of geology likewise, 

 is not to be called a geologist, then who is ? 



R. J. Lechmere Guppy. 



Port of Spain, Trixidad. 



MESSRS. HATCH & CORSTORPHINE'S "GEOLOGY OP S. AFRICA." 



Sir, — It may prevent some confusion subsequently, to point out 

 that in Hatch & Corstorphine's recently-issued work on " The 

 Geology of South Africa" there is an error in the naming of one 

 of the fossils from the Umtamvuna Series (Pondoland) depicted 

 in fig. 71 on p. 259. Fig. 716 should have been described as 

 Ammonites gardeni, and not Ammonites soutoni, the figure having 

 evidently been copied from one of Baily's original figures of that 

 species (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xi, 1855, pi. xi, fig. 3a). 



British Museum (Natural History). G. C. Criok. 



