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miocene as my researches have shown. The Manzanilla beds 

 may he older. The lowest beds of the Naparima series, the 

 Orbitoides bed, &c., formerly called by me the San Fernando 

 beds, are eocene and pass down into the Cretaceous. Here I 

 may take the opportunity to say a few words in reference to the 

 correlation of the West Indian deposits of tertia^ age. Gregory 

 has written a valuable paper in which he deals with this question.* 

 I have made use of his paper in mine on the "Geological Con- 

 nexions of the Caribean Region." His erudition and research 

 are profound. From time to time I have sent him copies of 

 my papers. I w T ish he had been equally kind to me. But he is 

 a "Professor,' and has achieved fame in many fields, while I 

 have no titles or any recognition of my work from any scientific 

 authority and probably he looks upon me as one of the small fry 

 not worth notice, f Still if he had sent me his papers I should 

 not have remained so long in ignorance of what he has written. 

 It is difficult in his country, where science is unwelcome, to find 

 the means of making oneself acquainted with all that is published 

 on geological subjects connected with the West Indies. Our 

 Public Library is useless for any scientific purpose, being devoted 

 to the supply of fiction and the scientific works stored there being 

 neglected and inaccessible. Our little scientific institution (called 

 Victoria Institute) gained after years of asking and patient waiting, 

 which might have done something to meet the want, has been 

 perverted from the objects of its foundation to those of a music 

 hall and billiard saloon. Consequently, when I want any infor- 

 mation I cannot get within the walls of my own library and 

 museum I have to go at great cost and inconvenience to myself 

 to the scientific museums and libraries of Europe and America. 

 And as I am now getting past work of that sort, having spent 

 over fifty years in the malarious and enervating climate of 



* Journal Geological Society 1895, Page 255. 



t In this matter I am quite content to be in the same Company with 

 though on a much lower plane than that eminent man William Smith 

 1 he father of English Geology — (See what Marcon says about him in 

 "Roches du Jura. " Page 353). 



