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origin. I also noted some flint knives, and some other thin cutting implonicnts 
witli regular serrated edges, which I took to be prototyjies of saws. lu addi- 
tion to these antc-ccltic roiuains, their arc several Distances derived from the 
contents of barrows of fluit " urchins" being treasured up as sling-stcmes. I 
beg to suggest an exannnation of the local museums where such remains may 
be expected to occur, and a reference to the locality where found, if given. In 
the museum of Le Puy, 1 saw one of the fluit tools which M. Aymard subse- 
Suently told me came from Pcrigueux, where a manufactory of them had evi- 
ently been discovered. — S. 11. Pattison. 
TUK DiSCOVKRER OF THE PtERASPIS REMAINS IN THE LoWER LUDLOW BeD 
(" Geologist," vol. iii., p. 26). — We have received a communication from Mr. 
J. E. Lee, of Caerleon, mclosing cei-tain letters from Mr. Lightbody to himself, 
in relation to the discovery of tliesc mteresting fish-remains. It is manifestlj 
impossible for us to know the minutia; of every geological transaction, but it 
is always within our province, and certainly agreeable to ourselves to become 
the means of correcting any of those accidental errors which will occasionally 
occur. In the case of these Pteraspis remains, it appears Mr. Salter, in the 
Annals and Magazine of Natural History for July, 1859, has doubtless most 
unintentionally committed the error of attributing then- discovery to Mr. Light- 
body, who forwarded them to Mr. Salter for examination and description, 
instead of to Mr. Lee, who really found them in the "starfish quarry" at Leint- 
wardine, when collecting fossils there in company with Mr. Lightbody. Errors 
of this kind are much to be regretted, as the cliief reward of the labours of 
provincial geologists is in their due appreciation and acknowledgement by the 
special authorities to whom they communicate, lend, and often give theii- most 
prized treasures, and in the present case it seems to be particidarly unfortunate, 
as the specunen has been hberally presented by Mr. Lee to the Jermyu-street 
Museum, and duly acknowledged by Sir Roderick Murehison to him. 
Slickensides. — In the last niunber of tiie " Geologist," page 38, line 0, for 
" George Hilliston" read " George H. Morton." See Note ou Slickensides. 
REVIEW. 
Geology in the Garden. By Henry Eley, M.A. London : BeU and Daldy. 
" Geology in the Garden " is a pleasing idea ; it suggests at once the simple 
plan and story of the book, but we scarcely thought when we opened it the 
garden would have given so wide a range — so much scope of subject available 
for so much instruction as Mr. Eley has made it convey. 
Walking round his garden, one sees two prominent subjects of inquiry — the 
gravel of tlie walks, and the soil of the beds. The gravel derived from the 
flints of the chalk contains microscopic and other cretaceous fossils, which of 
course are fully described. Eor the most part they consist of Foraminifera ; 
and Mr. Eley's original observations and remarks upon that wonderfully diver- 
sified class of simple rhizopods do liim liigh credit for acuteness of investiga- 
tion and perspecuity of explanation. The other topic — the soil of the beds — is 
handled with considerable skill, and attention is admirably directed to the 
powcrfid uifluences exerted by earthworms in assisthig the waste by rainfall 
and other deuuduig operations. One extract on tliis topic will bring a valuable 
consideration home to inanv of our readers : — 
