In the September Number of the Geol. Mag. pp. 425, 426, there are some remarks by Mr. G. H. Kinahan on the nomenclature of certain igneous rocks, on which I should like to offer a few observations. The rocks referred to belong to the acidic group, and are mentioned under the various names of granite, nevadite, granitic rhyolite, liparite, trachyte, elvanite, siliceous elvanite, felstone, bottleite, trachalite; the two last being synonymous, for it appears that bottleite is the local name for a vitrioid rock pronounced to be trachalite; but several of the other names are also synonymous or useless, for we are told that nevadite—a proposed new addition to our granitic rocks—is characterized by a more or less crystalline felsitic matrix inclosing crystals of quartz, one or two felspars with mica or amphibole.