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are human implements, man lived at a far more remote epoch than has usually 

 been assigned to his creation. 



The Pteraspis discovered at Leintwardine, near Ludlow, by Mr. Lightbody, 

 of the Woolhope Club, in the Lovrer Ludlov^ deposits, greatly antedated the 

 period at v^^hich fish w^ere supposed to have first existed. The fossil had been 

 examined by competent authorities and both its fish character, and the physical 

 position of the beds, had now been firmly established. After the meeting of 

 the British Association of Aberdeen, Mr. Symonds accompanied Lord Ennis- 

 killen. Sir C. Lyell, Sir W. Jardine, and Professor Harkness to the Elgin dis- 

 trict, for the further examination of the reptile-bearing sandstones containing 

 the Telerpeton, Stagonolepis, and Hyperadaphodon, and long supposed to belong 

 to the age of the Old E,ed Sandstone. Mr. Symonds entirely agreed with the 

 opinion formed by Sir C. Lyell, founded on a mass of evidence and details too 

 intricate to be briefly or easily explained, that the reptiliferous sandstones of 

 Elgin are more probably of the Triassic age, than of the epoch of the Old Red. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Notices of Incoerectnesses in Mr. Page's Handbook of Geological 

 Terms.— Dear Sir,— On the recommendation of last month's " Geologist," 

 I bought Mr. Page's Handbook of Geological Terms. Upon glancing at it, I 

 saw that he had fallen into some errors of pronunciation, and, invited to do so 

 by his preface, I wrote to him immediately to put him on his guard, and give 

 liim an opportunity of taking such steps as he should deem advisable. As 

 the matter seems to have escaped your notice, I thhik it well to advise you of 

 it. In my opinion there are many of these errors ; but others may differ from 

 me in some instances. I note a few, however, below, which admit of no 

 doubt, as reference to every lexicon and receiied authority "vnll show : 



Affniis, Agglutinans, Albo-galerus, Briareus, Concavus, Congeners, Echinus 

 and Echinite, Edulis, Eugiyphus, Giganteus, Hexagonus, Hippocrepis, Ma- 

 crospondylus, MammiDiferons. 



One or two other errors of a different kind, have caught my eye. 



Mniola he derives from miUe — though confounding the idea with that of 

 ixvpids, 10,000, apparently. It evidently comes from milium, the seed of 

 miUet, which the little shell resembles.* It would have been miUiola other- 

 wise, I suppose, for the inventor would hardly have chosen the obsolete mile for 

 such a purpose. 



Siva is a male deity, not a goddess. 



Brachiopoda — " spiral arms," " which they can uncoil and protrude." 



Woodward says, "It has been conjectured, etc. . . this supposition is 

 rendered less probable by the fact that, in many genera, they are supported by 

 a brittle skeleton of shell"— Manual, p. 211. — I am, dear sir, yours truly, 

 Henry Eley. — We regard Mr. Eley's communication as a most iinportcDit 

 note, and we cordially introduce it, as expressive of our sincere wish to add to 

 the usefulness of Mr. Page's valuable book, to remove some more of the numer- 

 ous stumbling blocks akeady laid in the student's path by the bad Latiiiism of 

 very many of the modern naturalists and palaeontologists. There is not only a 



* If crowded aggregation is implied, the spike of luillet is a most apt similitude. 



