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sliillings or even pounds. We liavc, however, often spoken out as to the 
inoney-value of fossils. They have no real money-value, and to eollect , t hrougli 
the niodium of workmen, good fossils, there is oidy one way of sueeeeding, and 
that is to encourage the most intelligent of them in any special locality, and to 
recompense them liberally for submitting all they obtain at first-hand and intact 
to your notice. 
Class-Lectures on Geology. — Sir, — Can you kindly inform me of any 
class for the acquisition of the science of Geology, as I wish to devote my 
leisure to it. I would not have troubled you, but I find the evening classes at 
King's College do not comprehend this science within their course of study ; 
tliat at the Working Man's College also it is not taught. "WHiere else to apply 
I know not, and as, from the popular character of your periodical, I judge you 
may possibly be better acquamted with such classes than most men, I have 
vcntui-ed to trouble you. A reply on the cover of next month's Geologist 
will much oblige, E. H., Hackney. — Class-lectures for geology and pal^eontology 
were commenced during their last session at the rooms of the Geologists' Asso- 
ciation, 5, Cavendish-square, and vnU. be continued during the ensuing and 
future seasons. We regret E. H. did not think fit to entrust us in eonfideuee 
with his name, as we eoidd then have eommuiucated every particidar to him 
by post. It is not our practice to answer queries on the wrapper of our 
Journal ; and although we did so last mouth in answer to E. H., we shall not 
break through our rule in any future instances ; nor shall we feel ourselves at 
all bound to notice purely anonymous communications. We suppress the names 
of our correspondents on all occasions when required to do so, but tlie absence 
of the private communication to ourselves, as in tliis case, frequently causes 
needless trouble and expence, especially when the queries reach us late in 
the month. 
Weathered Rocks, near Keswick. — A very interesting communication 
fi'om Mr. T. llupert Jones in No. 20 of The Geologist relating to the 
" weathering" of grauitc-rocks, has reminded me of what I observed on a late 
visit to Keswick in the surrounding scenery. I remarked that the masses, 
great and small, of the prevailing rocks, Siliu'ian and igneous, strewed around 
on tlie sides of the mountains and in the valleys and ravines exhibited an 
amount of rounding-off of their angles, equalling that of the boulders of primitive 
and secondary rocks met with in the drift of the eastern counties ; and as these 
masses caimot have experienced the attrition or friction consequent on transpor- 
tation, their bouldered-state must be the result of weathering. 
Durmg the same ramble I remarked to a companion how much the summits 
of some of the mountains resemble craters in volcanic districts, except that 
they were too small for the result of volcanic action. K I recoUeet rightly, I 
particularly observed one near Buttermere, on my way to Keswick, through 
Nc^dands, as looking towards the Mere. Probably these hollows have resulted 
similarly to those mentioned by Sir Hem-y de la Beche in a note on the " Re- 
port on Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset," and theii- cause explained by 
Mr. Ormerod in his table of Tors and Rock-basins.* As it is probable that 
many of your readers have not heard of the "Bowder-Stone" in Borrowdale, 
I will give an account of its magnitude as recorded in a hand-bill sold on the 
spot. The dimensions are as foUows, viz., length G2 feet, perpendicular height 
36 feet, circumference 89 feet. It contains 23,090 solid feet, and weighs 
1971 tons 13 cwt. 
Bowder-stone, as above wi-itten, is of course a corruption of Boulder-stone, 
or Bowlder-stone, as Webster has it in his dictionary. I send these few words 
for the use of juvemle geologists, that they may not interpret the above de- 
* The Geologist for Augiist, pp. 309—310. 
