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miocene as m\- researches have shown. The Mauzanilla beds 
may be older. The lowest beds of the Xaparima series, the 
Orbitoides bed, &c., formerh' called b}- me the San Fernando 
beds, are eocene and pass down into the Cretaceous. Here I 
ina}’ take the opportuuit}' to sa}’ a few words in reference to the 
correlation of the West Indian deposits of tertiarj- age. Gregor}* 
has written a valuable paper in which he deals with this question.* 
I have made use of his paper in mine on the “Geological Con- 
nexions of the Caribean Region.’’ His erudition and research 
are profound. From time to time I have sent him copies of 
my papers. I wish he had been equally kind to me. But he is 
a “Professor,’ and has achieved fame in many fields, while I 
have no titles or any recognition of my work from any .scientific 
authority and probably he looks upon me as one of the .small fry 
not worth notice. t Still if he had sent me his papers I should 
not have remained so long in ignorance of what he has written. 
It is difficult in his countr}*, where science is unwelcome, to find 
the means of making oneself acquainted with all that is published 
on geological subjects connected with the West Indies. Our 
Public Library is useless for an}* scientific purpose, being devoted 
to the supply of fiction and the scientific works stored there being 
neglected and inaccessible. Our little scientific institution (called 
Victoria Institute) gained after 5’ears of asking and patient waiting, 
which might have done something to meet the want, has been 
jierverted from the objects of its foundation to those of a music 
hall and billiard saloon. Con.sequently, when I want any infor- 
mation I cannot get within the walls of m3* own librar}* and 
museum I have to go at great cost and inconvenience to m3*self 
to the scientific museums and libraries of Europe and America. 
And as I am now getting past work of that sort, having spent 
over fift}* 3*ears in the malarious and enervating climate of 
* Journal Geological Societ}* 1895, Page 255. 
t In this matter I am quite content to be in the same Compaii}- with 
though on a much lower plane than that eminent man William Smith 
the father of English Geolog}*— (See what Marcon says about him in » 
“Roches du Jura.” Page 353). 
