COREESPO^fDENCE. 



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nidad," bein^ Part I. of the West Indian Survey. Tlie salses above-men- 

 tioned are also described in this most useful work. 



Believe me, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



B. Lechmeee Guppy. 



Port of Spain, Tnnidad, April 2, 1862. 



ArclicBoJogy and Geology. 



Dear Sie, — Three articles in the 'Geologist' of June, 1862, have so far 

 interested me as to induce a few remarks, if I do not obtrude upon your 

 space, viz. that of J. Wyatt, Esq., F.G.S., that of T. E. Jones, Esq., 

 E.G.S., and that of your foreign correspondent, S. J. M. The two former 

 discuss the orbitolina ; the latter writes on the trenching of geologists in 

 their investigations on the domains of the archseologist and the historian. 

 The illustrations given by J. Wyatt, Esq., F.G.S., coincide exactly with 

 specimens in my collection which I have obtained from the Chalk in dif- 

 ferent localities of this Island. JMy specimens include varieties which 

 rauge in a graduated scale from the orbitolina, with a small indentation, to 

 those with a perfect and natural hole, smoothly perforating these forarai- 

 nifera, without the intervention of artificial boring. In addition to these 

 geological specimens, I possess also antiquarian specimens of the orbitolina, 

 obtained from tumuli or barrows examined by me — indeed, one at least, 

 was obtained from among the beads of a necklace found upon an Anglo- 

 Saxon skeleton, which convinced me that it had been strung as a bead 

 among those of amber, glass, and terra-cotta, which ornamented the per- 

 son of our exhumed ancestor. There can be little doubt that these ancient 

 people appropriated both natural as well as artificial perforated objects for 

 their personal adornment. From the same barrow from which I obtained 

 my perforated orbitolina, I procured a naturally-perforated pebble, and 

 an artificially-perforated lump of lead, while the amber beads consisted of 

 natural lumps of unshaped amber, simply perforated for suspension. S. 

 J. M. gives ample reasons which prove that the geologist, if he trenches 

 upon the domains of the antiquarian, does not do so without much advan- 

 tage to the latter, especially in these days of Drift discoveries, which, by 

 the bye, have carried the antiquarian back to a human period of which he 

 formerly had no conception. It is to be hoped that the geologist and the 

 antiquarian maj^ pursue these interesting modern discoveries in a spirit of 

 wholesome rivalry, inasmuch as their so doing will conduce much to the 

 elucidation of an obscure period, both historically and geologically. 



I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 



Eenest p. Wilkins, F.G.S. 



Neioport, Isle of Wight. 



JKammalia from Maccagnone Cave. 



Sir, — In the table professing to show "the association of the earliest 

 evidences of the human race with remains of extinct and recent Mam- 

 malia," p. 228 of the June number of the ' Geologist,' I observe that the 

 following species are attributed to the Grotto of Maccagnone, in Sicily, for 

 the original description of the contents of which I am responsible : — 1. Felis 



