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Rh coast with Mr. Gunn, who still adhered to his opinion that Elephas primigenius was not found in the Forest-bed. He called attention to the probable commingling of Indian and African types in the valley of the Euphrates, as shown by the Assyrian sculptures.

Prof., in answer to Prof. Owen, said that the section of the deposits near Northwich in which the Mammoth tooth was found was made by the engineer who had made the boring and had sent him specimens; and he gave reasons for holding that the Boulder-clay was not remanié, but the true Lower Boulder-clay. It contains numbers of large striated blocks from Cumberland and Scotland, and no marine shells. That was the case in the clay he had described, which extended from Northwich to Manchester, and had nothing to do with that of Cheshire referred to by Prof. Hughes. He did not know that there was any important difference between the blocks in the Upper and Lower Boulder-clay. He thought that if Prof. Leith Adams would examine the teeth in the museums of Florence, Bologna, and Lyons, he would find that the narrow-plated Mammoth teeth did shade off into wide-plated varieties, and that the species was not so definite as he appeared to think. As regarded Cervus megaceros, it occurred in Ballybetale bog in peaty mud above the clay, and extended up to close below the upper friable peat. The elephant of the Crag was probably E. meridionalis.