Correspondence — Rev. J. M. Mello. 443 



is really inconsistent with that of Uniformity is what Professor 

 Huxley calls Evolutionism, and which I prefer to call Progression or 

 Progressive Development. Even Mr. Huxley has, it seems to me, 

 ahused the similar word " Catastrophioal " by taking it to indicate a 

 " tertium quid," a theory as much opposed to Evolutionism as to 

 Uniformitarianism. ^ Whereas I conceive the idea of occasional 

 Catastrophes or Paroxysms to be quite compatible with either 

 theory. — Your obedient servant, 

 Fairlawn, Cobham, Surbby. Cr. PoULETT Sckopb. 



DISCOVERT OF FLINT-IMPLEMENTS NEAR FOLKESTONE, KENT. 



SiK, — It may both interest some of your readers as well as stir up 

 those dwelling in the neighbourhood to know that during the course 

 of the last month, I found at Folkestone several Flint-implements. 

 Along the sides of the footpath on the top of the cliff between 

 Folkestone and Sandown, there is a low embankment, made proba- 

 bly of material collected off the adjoining fields ; in this embank- 

 ment the implements occur. They are mostly of the rude flake or 

 " scraper " pattern. The first discovered, which was also the finest, 

 was lying partly exposed on the top of the bank, and subsequently 

 my brother and myself found several more not far from the same 

 spot. I enclose sketches of the principal ones, and I have Kttle 

 doubt that further search in the same bank would bring many 

 others, and possibly finer ones, to light. — I am, etc., 



%HBr™rZ: iM"?r' J- M. Mello, M.A., P.G.S. 



[NoTB.— The locality referred to by the Rev. J. M. MeUo is one of great interest 

 and has been, we believe, already noticed by Mr. John Evans, F.R.S., Sec. Geol. Soc, 

 Mr. W. Whitaker, F.G.S., and other gentlemen ; by whom stone-implements have 

 also been obtained thereabouts. A flint-flake, corresponding with the largest found 

 by Mr. MeUo, is figured on Plate xxvii. a. of the '■'■ Reliquics Aquitanica," by 

 Messrs. Lartet and Christy. Figs. 4 and 5 of Mr. Mello's sketch resemble a " Flint 

 piercer" from La Madelaine (Op. cit. woodcut fig. 52, p. 134, Part X) and an "Awl 

 or Graver" (fig 23, p. 130. op. cit.). Both in Kent and Sussex, a large manufactory 

 of flint-implements was undoubtedly carried on in prehistoric times. — Edit. Geol. 

 Mag. 



HALL'S MINERALOGISTS' DIRECTORY. 

 Sib, — In your notice of Hall's Mineralogists' Directory in the 

 August Number of the Geological Magazine, p. 382, you express a 

 hope that information as to omissions and errors will be liberally re- 

 sponded to by local collectors so that the new edition promised by 

 the author may be more complete and accurate than the present one. 

 Having used Mr, Hall's book for some time I have great pleasure in 

 testifying to its general accuracy, at the same time I venture to offer 

 a few notes on one district (Cornwall) with which I am well 

 acquainted, which, perhaps, may be useful to some of your readers 

 and also to Mr. Hall. 



1 Anniversary Address to Geol. Soc, 1869. 



