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Trinidad and been subject, not only to the most terrible fevers, 
but also the deadlj'^ persecution of those who hate science and 
freedom, and who command all influence in the commuuit}^ I 
can do but little. 
As I have said. Professor Gregoiy’s erudition and re.search 
are profound, but they have not saved him from falling into the 
error of mixing up the Miocene with the Eocene and calling the 
result Oligocene. So far as I am concerned, I have objected to 
the use of the latter term which has only come into use since my 
eyes have been opened to the distinctions between the Eocene 
and Miocene of the West Indies. For the depo.sits containing 
Area Patricia^ Petaloco 7 ichus, Solarimn, Turbinelus, Co 7 Uis, &c., 
&c., in Haiti, Jamaica, Cumana (Venezuela), Trinidad, &c., I 
prefer to retain the term Miocene. In his paper of 1895 (Journal 
of the Geological Societj^, Vol. LI., page 295) Gregor}^ refers to 
two Echinoids sent him from Antigua as most typical of the West 
Indian “Oligocene.” Of these Echi 7 ia 7 ithus a 7 itila 7 'ii}>i is 
stated by Cotteau to be an eocene species from St. Barts while 
Clypeaster co 7 tcavus (Cotteau) is stated to be from the miocene of 
Anguilla, having been previously recorded by me from that island 
under the name of C. elipticus. I fear that some mi.stake has 
crept in here, for while the St. Barts formation is eocene that of 
Anguilla is decided to be miocene. I am the more inclined to sus- 
pect a mi.stake here because I find that Echi 7 iola 77 ipas sc//iiorbis, 
which I described from the miocene of Anguilla, has been as.signed 
by Cotteau to the eocene of St. Barts. The error is a serious 
one, because Cotteau cites E. se//iio 7 'bis from Cuba, and much 
confu.sion has already arisen as regards the classification and 
arrangement of the West Indian strata, owing to the want of due 
care in a.s.signing the fos.sils to their proper beds. (See \’’aughan 
Jennings in the Journal of the Geological Society, 1S92, page 
541.) I shall not go further into the.se points just now because I 
have in hand a paper on the Geology of Antigua and other parts 
of the West Indies in which I shall touch on this question. In 
