NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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want of a critical guide for the milettered student, but the faulty pronuncia- 

 tion in vogue seems little likely to be corrected without a good standard of 

 reference more ready at hand than dictionary and gradus. We may remark 

 that, besides those instances mentioned by INIr. Eley, several of wliich, 

 especially afKnis, giganteus, concavus, ediilis, are sldom rightly spoken among 

 geologists, there is the frequent mispronunciation of such words as the gene- 

 tives of proper names ; thus, IMllleri wrongly for Milleri, Scouleri for Scouleri, 

 and the like ; also Ganoidea, Crinoidea, Cystidea, &c., are not always thus cor- 

 rectly pronounced. We may, however, remind tyros that family names, such 

 as Ostreidse, are to be pronounced as Mr. Page thus marks, not Ostreidse, as 

 it is incorrectly and too commonly spoken. 



In jMr. Page's list at p. 40, multifidus has no accentuation, it should be mul- 

 tifidus — too often pronounced multifidus wrongly ; so also quadi-ifidus and tri- 

 fidus. Hemisphericus (p. 398) should be hemisphaericus. Eossihs (p. 396) 

 should be accentuated fossllis. Cervical at p. Ill should be Cervical, not 

 Cervical. 



We here add some other corrections which have been pointed out to us by 

 another correspondent, and we hope the book will be all the better for such 

 criticisms in the next edition. Por its sake we are open to receive more 

 notes of corrections, so that both tyro and Mr. Page may have the benefit 

 thereof, Digitalus, finger-like, should be eitlier digitalis, belonging to a finger, 

 or digitatus, fingered — formed as fingers ; dorsalis should have its accent on 

 the middle syllable ; gagateus may be accented thus, gagateus. In the Latin, 

 Konig should be spelt Koenigius ; so also Noeggerathius, Longimanus wants 

 the accent at p. 401. The correction of psilopora for the incorrect psHopdra 

 (p. 409), and tubipora for tubipora, may remind many of the common wrong 

 pronuncation of the multitude of names of corals and bryozoa partly composed 

 of pora, a pore. Pygmseus, unaccented at p. 409, should have its penultimate 

 syllable long ; this is often forgotten. In the same page, pucillus is apparently 

 a misprint for pasUlus, and Uankinei for Rankinei. Saxatilis at p. 410 should 

 be Saxatilis. Tohapicus (p. 414) has, we beheve, a reference to Tolapia, or 

 some similar form of the Latia name of the Isle of Sheppy. Um'color should 

 take the place of the incorrect unicolor. Maeandrinus should be placed for 

 meandi-inus, Macrostomus for macrostomus. Moniliformis and mouilitectus 

 momleformis, etc. Muensterianus for Miinsterianus (after Count Miinster). 

 Cypridiaa-Schiefer (p. 137) should not be half Latia half German, but as the 

 Germans have it, Cypridiaen-Schiefer. 



We would suggest that the description of Brachiopoda at page 96, may be 

 corrected thus : — "which they cannot uncoil and protrude, but with which" etc. 



Slickensides. — Dear Sir,- — I was much interested by the queries and re- 

 plies, upon the subject of slickensides, m the last number of the " Geologist." 

 They are very abundant iii the Keuper sandstone of Cheshire, and the south- 

 west of Lancashire. Usually, two polished striated surfaces exist together, 

 but not always, for occasionally a single slickenside is only opposed by a soft 

 sandstone, without any trace of such an appearance. Those said to be two 

 feet apart, I think can have no connection with each other. Paults are very 

 numerous m this neighbourhood ; in width they vary from an iach to twenty 

 yards. They are always filled with sandstone, very much harder than the 

 strata bounding them, while at each side slickensides abound. If the strata at 

 each side of the fault is removed, the enclosed compact rock stands across Kke 

 a wall, beautifully polished and striated upon each side. In such cases it is 

 evident that the polished suifaces could not have been caused by the original 

 disruption of the strata, but afterwards — long after the fault had been filled by 

 debris. I am therefore of opinion that a throw of the strata to a very small 

 extent, acting under inmiense pressui'e, was sufiicient to cause the phenomena. 



