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toes of unequal length, and attributed to an extinct bird known to 

 American naturalists by the name of ornitichnites. 



An interesting collection of these footprints has been deposited by 

 the order of M. Paul Gervais in the Geological Gallerj- of the Faculty of 

 Sciences at Montpellier, where they may be examined at leisure by 

 naturalists visiting that town. 



LETTER EROM THE EEY. C. KIKGSLEY, 

 RECTOR OF EVERSLEY. 

 {To the Editor of the Geologist.) 



Dear Sik, — I have read with great pleasure and also great hope, 

 your first number — and am especially delighted to find that you aim 

 at spreading a popular knowledge of Geology. May I, in further- 

 ance of this object, make a suggestion? Why not establish in your 

 magazine a regular geological Xotes and Queries " department ? 



There are hundreds, if not thousands, who have no time to work out 

 geological problems for themselves ; who yet are most desirous of in- 

 struction, and would receive the results of the science frankly and trust- 

 fully. Artizans desirous of self-instruction, and ladies of rank desirous 

 of instructing their children would, alike, be glad to know a hundred 

 things which, not having books, time, or perhaps scientific habits of 

 mind, they cannot find out for themselves. If a knot of wise men, 

 arid such a clergyman as Mr. Brodie among them, would deign to 

 explain to these people their puzzles, they would be doing a noble 

 work, and sowing good seed in many minds which would bear fruit in a 

 future generation, by freeing it from childhood, from the bonds of 

 many superstitions and traditions of altogether human invention. 



May I give an instance in which I myself appear in the character of 

 one begging for information ? 



Last summer, in the Isle of Purbeck, I was told of a wonderful rock, 

 the Haggerstone,''* which lay on the top of a hill in the northern moors 

 of the Isle, overlooking Poole Harbour. Would I go and see it ? " 

 Eor nobody agreed how it got here. " It was a proof of Woah's 



Query. — Hag's Stone ; Ilese's Stone ; Witches" Stone. 



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