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open to the North, having whales for its habitues (Rev. John 

 Gunn). No trace of the Mastodon has been found in the 

 forest ; in the Pliocene period, while the pine trees were 

 probably growing, the Mastodon was dying out in Europe, 

 although he survived to a later date in America. 



Some remarks were made upon the two teeth which 

 were exhibited. 



As to the tooth dug up at Cromer it was, as stated, 

 in all probability the tooth of an Elephas primigenius, an 

 animal which survived the glacial epoch, and possibly was 

 contemporary with man. Its species was abundant in the 

 drift soil at the bottom of the North Sea, and the Knole Sand 

 off Yarmouth had contributed largely to its discovered traces. 



The other and larger tooth could be clearly identified as 

 a prsemolar tooth of a young Elephas meridionalis, that it 

 was a tooth from a young animal was probable, for the 

 reason that the fangs were so well developed, and had not 

 had time to grow into and form a part of the bone of the 

 jaw. The species Elephas meridionalis must have migrated 

 to the forest from the south at a time previous to the 

 existence of the English Channel in its present state. 

 Allusion was made to the controversy which had long 

 occupied attention and had arisen in connection with the 

 remains of extinct animals which had been discovered, 

 namely, as to how far the date of man's first existence on 

 the earth should be carried back into past time, and on a 

 weighing of all the authorities on both sides Mr. Hazard 

 came to the conclusion that nothing had yet been discovered 

 to shew that the opinion which had been held for so many 

 ages as to the supposed date when man first appeared on the 

 earth was a wrong one. 



Before closing his remarks, Mr. Hazard drew attention 

 to the remains of extinct Mammalia recently discovered in 

 digging out the foundations of Messrs. Drummond's bank at 

 Charing Cross, and to the illustrations and description of 

 them contained in the Illustrated Loudon News of 13th 

 January, 1883. 



