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orderly conduct, good temper, and the pleasure evinced by the twenty- 
eight inhabitants of the Home.' " . . . " We would commend Mr. Corbyn's 
narrative to the study of those who, like Sir W. Denison, enter the lists 
in a mild fashion against Mr. Darwin and Professor Huxley, in defence of 
the dignity of the race and its generic difference from the gorilla. If Mr. 
Corbyn's record is to be trusted, the fact that the most degraded speci- 
mens of humanity yet discovered can be taught in a few weeks to show 
extraordinary memory 'and quick intelligence,' to distinguish the letters 
of our alphabet and read words of two syllables, will not be overlooked by 
those who hold the old-fashioned belief that God made man in His own 
image." 
Southampton^ Srd October. 
Mr. Guppy's Article on T7'inidad Rocks. 
Mr DBAB SiH, — I am very sorry to see by your last number that Mr. 
Guppy has most unaccountably misapprehended the tenor and purpose of 
my former letter to you. I was perfectly aware that Mr. Guppy was not 
the authority for the correlation of the beds in question with the Neo- 
comian of Europe ; nor do I for one moment raise any objection to the 
connection of the two series of rocks. I merely objected to the use of the 
term " age ;" and without dissenting in one particular from Mr. Guppy 's 
statements, took the opportunity of referring to Professor Huxley's views 
on " homotaxis." Your correspondent himself states that he has held 
views similar to those in question ; and I am, therefore, surprised that he 
should have troubled himself to enter into an explanation on other matters, 
which was alike unnecessary and uncalled for. 
Let me assure Mr. Guppy that I concur in all that he has written 
on this matter, saving the one word " age ; " and I am sorry that he 
should have thought it worth while to correct an error which had no 
existence but in his own imagination. Yours truly, 
E. li. Lankesteb. 
8, Savik Row, W. 
PEOCEEDINGS OF GEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES. 
LiVEEPooL Geological Society. — The abstracts of the proceedings of 
this useful society, for the sessions of 1861-2 and 1862-3, have just been 
printed ; they commence with the Eeport of the Excursion to Holywell 
on the 11th July, 1861. 
The mountain limestone of that neighbourhood contains many species 
of the ordinary fossils in profusion, — Productus giganteus, P. semh^eticu- 
latus, Lithostrotion hasaltifurme, and Syringopora geniculata being the 
most common. The formation is there divided into the following sub- 
divisions : — 1, numerous beds of Chert; 2, Shale and Limestone, with con- 
cretions of chert ; 3, Black Limestone ; 4, White Limestone. The position 
of the chert nodules in Xo. 2 is similar to that of the flints in the Chalk, 
but their form is different, being round flat concretions, thick in the centre, 
and gradually thinning towards the circumference. 
Next follows the Report of the Evcnrsion to Coalbrookdale, on July 31st. 
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