THE GEOLOGIST. 
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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 Gallery of the Faculty of 
Sciences at Montpellier, where they may be examined at leisure by 
naturalists visiting that town. 
LETTER EROM THE REV. C. KINGSLEY, 
RECTOR OF EVERSLEY. 
{To the Editor of the Geologist.) 
Deae 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, 
and 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 IjjU in the northern moors 
of the Isle, overlooking Poole Harbour. " Would I go and see it ? " 
For nobody agreed how it got here. " It was a proof of Noah's 
* Query. — Hag's Stone ; llexe"s Stone ; Witclics' Stone. 
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