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THE GEOLOGIST. 
We give the text of these passages : — 
" Bei Lubeck wurde einst ein versteinter Ast mit einera Yogel-JSTest 
gefunden. Ein versteinter Zweig, gar artig proportionirt, wird in der 
Kunstkammer zu Florenz gewiesen," p. 187. 
_ " Eben bei diesem gliickliclien ZusprucK bekomme noclimalilige Ver- 
sicherung, wegen eines daselbst gefundenen Vogel-Nests, darinnen 4 oder 
5 weisse Ej^er, als Waclitel-Eyer, und ein Stein der 4 Ellen starek und 
sehr feste gewesen gelec^en, welches mir von einem anderu Freunde vor- 
gebildet worden als Tab. xxi. weiset." [jVI. D. S. Buttner's ' Riidera Di- 
luvii Testes/ p. 218, pi. xxi. fig. 6.— Leipzig, 1710.] 
''I cannot present now," says M. Hermann, in his ' Maslogra- 
phia '* (1711), *' all the figures which I possess on my polished pyra- 
mids, squares, and other big stones, but I will, nevertheless, give a 
few of them, plate xiii., from 12 to 17, as they are in a polished 
state." It is unfortunate for us M. Her:nanu could not do all he evi- 
dently wii^hed, but for our purpose he has done quite enough, and 
we copy his fig. 17 (in our PI. XXII. Fig. 3), as it has been referred to 
amongst the statements of bird-remains. 
Hermann also gives in tab. xi. fig. 99 another figure, which we 
also copy, describing it in his text as " a white stone with the neck of 
a goose" (see our Plate XXII. Fig. 3). 
*' Fig. 99. Lapis alb us cum collo anserino. Ganss-Hals." 
{To he continued.) 
COEEESPONDENCE. 
Homo sajnens versus Pithemis indocilis. 
SiE, — Page 392 of your periodical for October, contains an allusion to the 
Andaman Islanders. The subjoined extracts from the ' Friend of India,'t 
of the 6th August last, may perhaps tend to show that their degraded con- 
dition is more to be attributed to the circumstances attending their mode 
of existence {toto orbe divisos) than to any natural deficiency of intellect 
in them ; that their apparent low condition, relatively to the rest of 
mankind, is owing to deficiencies which are more acquired from the cir- 
cumstances which have surrounded them hitherto than inherent in them- 
selves. ^ W. T. N. 
Extracts. — " I^ever, we venture to say, has the Government of India 
published such remarkable documents as a Eeport by Lieutenant-Colonel 
Tytler, with a narrative, by the Eev. Henry Corbyn, of attempts to civi- 
lize the pigmies who inhalDit the Andaman Islands." ..." Mr. Corbyn 
declares he has unc{uestionable proof that the Andamanese, who are ' most 
imitative and possessed of extraordinary memory and quick intelligence, 
may soon acquire our language ; ' and he speaks of ' the submissive and 
* The title of this work is, — " ^laslograpliia, oder Beschreibung des Schlcsichen 
Massel, im Oelfs-Beinstadtischen riirsteuthum mit seiiieu Schauwiirdigkeiteu. Von 
Leonhard David Hermann. Brieg. 1711." 
t One of the first newspapers in the East. 
