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nidad," being Part I. of the West Indian Survey. The salses above-men- 
tioned are also described in this most useful work. 
Believe me, Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
B. Lechmeke Guppy. 
Port of Spain, Trinidad, April 2, 1862. 
Archasology 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. R. Jones, Esq., 
F.G.S., and that of your foreign con-espondent, S. J. M. The two former 
discuss the orbitoUna ; the latter writes on the trenching of geologists in 
their investigations on the domains of the archaeologist 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. My specimens include varieties which 
range in a graduated scale from the orbitolina, with a small indentation, to 
those with a perfect and natural hole, smoothly perforating these forami- 
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 v^■hich 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 may 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. 
Newport, Isle of Wight. 
Mammalia from Maccagnone Cave. 
SiE, — 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 
