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A paper by Dr. Leitli Adams announces the discovery of the 

 Asiatic elephant in a fossil state. The tooth, npon which the deter- 

 mination is based, was found by Dr. Duggan, at a distance of over 

 forty miles from the sea-shore, between Kanagawa and Jeddo, 

 in Japan, and at the base of a surface coal-bed. Mr. Busk, to 

 whom Dr. Adams sent a plaster-cast of the specimen, considers it 

 to be the antepenultimate upper left molar of what, if met with in 

 the recent condition, he should undoubtedly refer to Elephas Indicus. 

 The principal points of diflerence between the specimen in question 

 and the similar recent molar, are its considerable curvature, its 

 somewhat greater proportionate breadth, and the greater thick- 

 ness of the plates. These differences, however, are unimportant, 

 and there is every reason to believe that the Japanese fossil tooth 

 belongs to a form of Eleplias Indicus, with teeth somewhat larger 

 than the average of the existing one. 



In a paper by Dr. F. StoHczka, " On Jurassic Deposits in 

 the North-west Himalaya," the author combats the statement of 

 Mr. Tate that he has failed to estabhsh a true correlation between 

 the Jurassic stages of the rocks of the Spiti valley and their 

 European equivalents, which are all distinguishable by the charac- 

 teristic fossils of their European analogues. Dr. Stoliczka has 

 distinguished the following formations: — 



, -J- . (a. Lower Tagling Limestone. 



' ■ ■ ■ ■ \ 6. Upper Tagling Limestone. 



Q -P, ( c. Jurassic slates (not specified). 



I. iJogger .. .. j ^^_ Spiti shales. 



3. Malm ? . . . . e. Gieumal sandstone. 



The Lower Tagling limestone generally rests unconformably on 

 the Lower or Upper Triassic limestone, while the Gieumal sand- 

 stone is overlain by Cretaceous rocks. Supposing the determi- 

 nation of the species to be correct, and Dr. Stoliczka is too good a 

 palasontologist to make the matter doubtful, there can be no doubt 

 that he has succeeded in proving that the Himalayan Jurassic 

 rocks can be separated into determinate stages. 



In a paper " On the Distribution of Stone Implements in 

 Southern India," Mr. E. Bruce Foote describes the occurrence 

 and position of the quartzite implements which are found in the 

 laterite deposits of the eastern coast. These deposits, which are 

 considered to be of marine origin, occupy the position of a belt, 

 eight to ten miles in width, running parallel with the general coast 

 line, and broken through by the different rivers running into the 

 Bay of Bengal. This belt has been examined only from Ongole 

 to Tanjore, a distance of 300 miles; but Mr. Foote states that it 

 extends southward from the latter place, nearly down to Cape 

 Cormorin, and on the north will probably be found to join the 

 laterite of Orissa. The depth below its present level, to which 



