46 Modern Conglomerate. 



of these facts, it does not appear straining analogy too far to 

 conclude that the same cause has operated throughout the 

 whole space from the eastern coast of Norfolk, to that part of 

 Essex I have been considering, and even much further. — 

 Stanway near Colchester, Essex, November 11. 1835. 



[Fossil Bones of the Elephant and Beer found near Balling- 

 don, Essex (VIII. 353,354.) — Mr. Brown sent a drawing 

 in illustration of the preceding communication, and to indicate 

 the site in which the fossil bones of the elephant and deer 

 were found : see VIII. 353, 354. To the definition of this 

 site, given in VIII. 353, 354., it may be added that] " from 

 the spot where the bones were found to the top of the hill, is 

 about three quarters of a mile." [Mr. Brown has commu- 

 nicated, besides, that] " at the same spot, about a month ago, 

 a further discovery of two molar teeth of the elephant was 

 made. They are in fine preservation, and I had the pleasure 

 of seeing them on my last visit to Ballingdon." 



Art. XVI. Short Communications. 



Geology. — A notice of a rather recently discovered Locality 

 for some Fossil Remains of the Elephant. — These remains con- 

 sist of two tusks and a molar tooth, and were found, some time 

 since, in a bed of sandy gravel at Betchworth in Surrey, near 

 where the river Mole runs through the parish. The tusks 

 were about 3 ft. in length, and were rather decomposed ; the 

 tooth was about 7^ in. long, and had twenty plates, the usual 

 character of the common fossil tooth. The gravelly deposit 

 is superimposed on the greensand of the district, having an 

 area of two to three miles, and consists of angular and rounded 

 fragments of chalk flints, and the more ferruginous portions 

 of the greensand — John Morris. Kensington, Oct., 1835. 



Modern Conglomerate. — A small piece of puddingstone was 

 this summer found upon the beach at Cromer, by Mr. Hartt 

 Eade, of Marsham, near Aylsham, in whose possession it 

 now is, which contains a farthing of George the IV., a small 

 white metal button, and some pieces of lead; probably the 

 contents of some poor shipwrecked sailor's pocket. The 

 farthing and button are in contact, the lead is on the opposite 

 side of the stone, and near the button is the impression of a 

 bent iron nail dissolved by the action of the salt water and 

 air, and to which the conglomeration of this strange assem- 

 blage may be attributed. The matrix is the common beach 

 sand, on the surface of which are three ironstone pebbles, 

 one of yellow flint, and a small one of discoloured quartz. 



