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THE GEOLOGIST. 



"We give the text of these passages : — 



"Bei Lubeck wurde einst ein versteinter Ast mit einem Vogel-JSTest 

 gefunden. Ein versteinter Zweig, gar artig proportionirt, wird in der 

 Kunstkammer zu Florenz gewiesen," p, 187. 



" Eben bei diesem gliicklichen Zusprucli bekomme nochmalilige Ver- 

 sicherung, wegen eines daselbst gefundenen Vogel-Nests, darinnen 4 oder 

 5 weisse Eyer, als Wacktel-Eyer, und ein Stein der 4 Ellen starck und 

 selir feste gewesen gelegen, welches mir von einem andern Freunde vor- 

 gebildet worden als Tab. xxi. weiset." [M. D. S. Buttner's ' Kndera Di- 

 luvii Testes,' p. 218, pi. xxi. fig. 6.— Leipzig, 1710.] 



" I cannot present now," says M. Hermann, in his ' Maslogra- 

 phia ' # (1711), " all the figures which I possess on my polished pyra- 

 mids, squares, and other big stones, but I will, nevertheless, give a 

 few of them, plate xiii., from R. 12 to 17, as they are in a polished 

 state." It is unfortunate for us M. Hermann couid not do all he evi- 

 dently wished, but for our purpose he has done quite enough, and 

 we copy his fig. 17 (in our PI. XXII. Eig. 3), as it has been referred to 

 amongst the statements of bird-remains. 



Hermann also gives in tab. xi. fig. 99 another figure, which we 

 also copy, describing it in his text as " a white stone with the neck of 

 a goose" (see our Plate XXII. Fig. 3). 



" Fig. 99. Lapis albus cum collo anserino. Ganss-Hals." 



(To be continued.) 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Homo sapiens versus JPitkeciis indocilis. 



Sir, — Page 392 of your periodical for October, contains an allusion to the 

 Andaman Islanders. The subjoined extracts from the ' Friend of India/f 

 of the 6th August last, may perhaps tend to show that their degraded con- 

 dition is more to be attributed to the circumstances attending their mode 

 of existence (toto orbe divisos) than to any natural deficiency of intellect 

 in them ; that their apparent low condition, relatively to the rest of 

 mankind, is owing to deficiencies which are more acquired from the cir- 

 cumstances which have surrounded them hitherto than inherent in them- 

 selves. W. T. N. 



Extracts. — " Never, we venture to say, has the Government of India 

 published such remarkable documents as a Report by Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Tytler, with a narrative, by the Rev. Henry Corbyn, of attempts to civi- 

 lize the pigmies who inhabit the Andaman Islands." ..." Mr. Corbyn 

 declares he has unquestionable proof that the Andamanese, who are 'most 

 imitative and possessed of extraordinary memory and quick intelligence, 

 may soon acquire our language ; ' and he speaks of ' the submissive and 



* The title of this work is, — " Maslographia, oder Beschreihung des Schlcsichen 

 Massel, im Oelfs-Beinstadtischen Fiirstenthum mit seinen Schaavrurdigkeiteu. Von 

 Leonhard David Hermann. Brieg. 1711." 



f One of the first newspapers in the East. 



