342 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. 



TIN ORE FROM AUSTRALIA. 



At a recent meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History, Dr. A. A. 

 Hayes exhibited a specimen of octohedral tin ore from the gold washings of 

 Owen's river, on the way from Melbourne to Sydney, Australia. The ore is 

 accompanied by titaniferous and chromiferous iron ores, garnets, and yellow 

 quartz. In this connection, he stated that he had examined the black sands 

 of many of the gold washings of California, in which, besides garnets and 

 topazes, cinnabar is generally found, without detecting tin ore. Some of the 

 titaniferous iron crystals yield the slight traces of oxide of tin, often found 

 in the ore, but no crystals of pure oxide of tin hare been found. Although, 

 in general, a resemblance exists between the sands of Australia and those of 

 California, the heavy ores found are not the same in both. 



ON THE REMAINS OF THE GIGANTIC ELK, CERVUS EURYCEROS. 



M. de Morlot, in the Journal of the Geological Society, London, announces 

 the discovery of the remains of the gigantic elk, in association with works 

 of human industry, during the draining of a small lake in the Canton of 

 Berne, Switzerland. In the bed of the lake, in connection with fragments 

 of pottery, stone-chisels, arrow-heads, cut-wood, etc., were found many frag- 

 ments of the bones both of domesticated and of wild animals, viz., horned 

 cattle, horses, swine, dogs of various size, goats, sheep, cats, elks, stags, 

 aurochs, bears, wild boars, foxes, beavers, tortoises, several birds, and other 

 animals still undetermined. An atlas and jaw, however, sent by M. Trogon 

 to Prof. Pictet, of Geneva, were ascertained by this eminent palaeontologist 

 to belong to Cervus euryceros. The length of the atlas, is 0'265 metre, and 

 its breadth 0'088 metre; both differing only by ffa-Q from the measure- 

 ments stated by Cuvier. 



