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two large trifurcated ones behind. Me considers the animal to be 

 allied to the Dicranocerine group of Major Hamilton Smith*. 



Capt. C. also mentions the discovery of a large bear, as well as of 

 a camel, respecting which he had, in conjunction with Dr. Falconer, 

 published a paper. Mastodon's heads were also making their ap- 

 pearance, perfectly different in form from the proboscidean Pachy- 

 dermata of the present day. There appeared to be altogether two 

 if not three species, besides the variety of M. angustidens. 



A paper was then read " On some recent elevations of the Coast 

 of Banffshire; and on a deposit of clay, formerly considered to be 

 lias;" by Joseph Frestwich, jun., F.G.S. 



That an uplifting of the shores of the Moray Firth has taken place 

 subsequent to its having assumed its present outline, is proved by 

 the existence, in several places, of a raised beach. In Banffshire 

 this beach varies from six to twelve feet above the present high water 

 level ; and occasionally abounds in shells now inhabiting the adja- 

 cent seas, as Patella vulgata, P. levis, Trochus ziziphinus, Littorina 

 littorea, and Turbo returns. To this upheaving of the land the author 

 attributes the draining of the former lowlands, as he conceives is 

 indicated by the remains of drained peat-mosses. A section of one 

 of these presented a total thickness of about four feet, including two 

 irregular layers of gravel, of quartz grit, with freshwater and land 

 shells. 



In a paper on the Gamrie Ichthyolites, read before the Societv in 

 April 1835f, Mr. Prestwich stated, that having been informed of the 

 occurrence of lias fossils in the dark clay and sand, which in many 

 parts of Banffshire cap the old red sandstone and schistose rocks, he 

 had inferred that these beds might be outliers of lias. Having 

 however subsequently visited the country, and examined that de- 

 posit at Blackpots and Gamrie, he found the lias fossils in separate 

 masses and associated with rolled fragments of the older rocks. He 

 also met with at Gamrie, in a bed of light coloured sand, alternating 

 with dark clay and beds of gravel, the following recent shells, As- 

 tarte Scotica, Tellina tenuis, Buccinumitndatum, Natica glaucina, Fusus 

 iurricola, Dentalium dentalis, &c. They were extremely friable, but 

 perfect. This deposit or drift attains, in places, a thickness of 250 

 feet, and rises to a height of 350 feet. 



In conclusion, the author attributes the origin of this drift to a 

 denudation of the lias and older formations ; and he infers, from 

 the perfect preservation of the fossils, and the superposition of the 

 beds, that its accumulation was gradual. 



A paper was afterwards read, entitled " An account of a Tertiary 

 Deposit near Lixouri, in the island of Cephalonia ;" by William John 

 Hamilton, Esq., F.G.S. , and Hugh Edwin Strickland,' Esq., F.G.S. 



The authors state that most of the island of Cephalonia which they 

 had an opportunity of examining, consists of a hard white limestone 



[* Dr. Falconer's and Capt. Cautley's Memoir on the Sivatherium will be 

 found in Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag., vol ix. p. 193. et ieq.J 



f Geological Proceedings, Vol. ii. No. 40, or Lond. & Edinb. Phil. Mag., 

 vol. vii. p. 325. 



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