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THE GKOLOOIS'I'. 
are liumau 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 Lower Lxidlow deposits, greatly antedated the 
period at which fish were 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 meetmg 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 Telerpcton, Stagonolepis, and Ilyperadaphodon, and long supposed to belong 
to the age of the Old Red Sandstone. Mr. Symonds entirely agreed with the 
opinion formed by Su- 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 Incorrectnesses 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 liim immediately to put him on his guard, and give 
him an opportunity of taking such steps as he should deem advisable. As 
the matter seems to have escaped your .notice, I think 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 receiTed authority will show : 
Affinis, Agglutinans, Albo-galerus, Briareus, Concavus, Congeners, Echinus 
and Echfnite, Edulis, Eiiglyphus, Giganteus, Hexagdnus, Hippocrepis, Ma- 
crospoudylus, MammiUiferous. 
One or two other eiTors of a different kind, have caught my eye. 
Miliola he derives from mUle — though confounding the idea with that of 
juvpidy, 10,000, apparently. It evidently comes from milium, the seed of 
millet, which the little shell resembles.* It would have been mUliola 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. 
Bracliiopoda — " spiral arms," " wluch 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 iinportan 
note, and we cordially introduce it, as expressive of oiu- sincere wish to add t 
the usefulness of Mr. Page's valuable book, to remove some more of the numer 
ous stumblmg blocks already laid in the student's path by the bad Latinism o 
very many of tlie modem naturalists aud palseontologists. There is not only a 
* If crowded aggregation is implied, the spike of luillet is a most apt similitude. 
