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long list of recent and fossil organisms. The fragments of coal in 
this list is hesitatingly referred to as possibly indicating the 
passage of the waters through the Coal Measures. Several sections 
are given of the Mammal drift, which he considered came down 
the Frome Valley, as it contained rocks evidently from the Mendip 
area. A list of the bones of the extinct Mammalia is given, and 
he concludes with speculation as to the age of the extinct animals 
and some of the beds in which they were found, some 240,000 or 
80,000 years ago according to Croll—that far distant time when 
he describes ‘‘ our hills as surrounded, if not covered to their 
highest point, by glaciers,” the evidence of whose presence, though 
not seen on our soft rocks, yet in his opinion might be traced in 
the troughs and grooves of the stiff clays of the upper beds of the 
Lower Lias on which the drift invariably rested. He notes the 
curious fact that hitherto neither by himself or any other geologist 
has any of the Palzolithic implements indicative of man’s presence 
been found in the gravels of the Bath basin. 
On 17th December, 1873, there was a well attended evening 
meeting to hear him give his reminiscences of the Natural History 
and Geology of Mentone. He had gone there the preceding 
winter of 1872 in search of health, after his recovery from a 
serious attack of illness. The great variety of the botany; the 
interesting zoology ; the abundance of insect and reptilian life, and 
the absence of small birds (probably the cause of the latter); the 
startling noises of the tree frogs, and the extraordinary instinct 
(“if not something higher”) of the trap-door spiders were dwelt 
on. And he concluded with an account of the skeleton of 
Mentone, which he was fortunate enough to see, before its removal 
by the discoverer, Dr. Riviere, to Paris. He described the five 
caverns facing S. in the limestone range of hills, just outside the 
French frontier. A platform ran at about 100ft. above the 
Mediterranean, and these caverns are about 40 or 50ft. higher up 
in the side of the Jurassic hills. In one of these called Baoussé 
Roussé, the skelton was found, about 8 or 10ft. beneath the surface, 
