588 THE NATUEAL HISTOET EETIEW. 



The sections in which the relative positions of the different beds 

 were exhibited were described in detail, and plans and a map were 

 given showing their geographical relation. 



Mr. Davidson described the Brachiopoda forwarded with the paper, 

 stating that they abound particularly at Barus and Khoonmoo, but 

 are rarely in a very good state of preservation. Among them are 

 several common and wide-spread European and American species, 

 with a few that have not hitherto been noticed. They appear to be 

 of Lower Carboniferous age. 



In the introduction Mr. Godwin- Austen gave a synopsis of the 

 more remarkable facts brought forward in the paper, and in a Re- 

 sume he gave lists of the fossils which had as yet been determined. 

 These were forty-seven in number, forty-two of which had specific 

 names, and twenty-two of which are well-known forms ; eight are 

 common to the Punjaub and Kashmere, seven of them being also 

 found in British Carboniferous beds ; and Mr. God win- Austen re- 

 marked on the support given to the notion of the approximate con- 

 temporaneity of distant formations containing the same fossils by the 

 occurrence of these European Lower Carboniferous species near the 

 base of the Carboniferous formation of Kashmere. 



2. " On the Mammalian Eemains found by E. "Wood, Esq., 

 near Eichmond, Yorkshire." By W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq., B.A., 

 E.G.S. With an introductory note on the deposit in which 

 they were found. By E. Wood, Esq., F.G.S., and G. E. Eoberts, 

 Esq., E.G.S. 



These mammalian remains were discovered last autumn on a 

 terrace of blue clay, mixed with limestone debris, about 130 feet 

 above the north bank of the Eiver Swale, during excavations for a 

 new sewer. The deposit was stated by Mr. Dawkins to be a heap 

 of kitchen refuse, and the great majority of the bones, except the 

 solid and marrowless, are consequently broken, while not one of the 

 numerous skulls is perfect. The collection contained bones of the 

 following species: — Ursus arctos, Canis familiar is ^ Sus scrofa, Horse, 

 Cervus elapJiuSf Cervus dana, Bos longifrons, Bos bracTiyceros, Ovis 

 aries, Capra eegagrus, and the horn-cores of a third form of goat, 

 which appeared to be the ^goceros Caucasica, which had also been 

 found by Mr. Dawkins and Mr. Sanford in a bone-cavern explored 

 by them in 1863. In a note to Mr. Dawkins, M. Lartet expressed 

 his opinion that these horn-cores belonged to some of the diversified 

 forms that are the result of hybridity, and stated that they resembled 



