Elephant was sent to Dr. Mantell by the late Mr. Drewitt of that place, who was ever anxious 
to promote scientific research. I saw these remains soon after they were found, and possess one 
of the teeth. They consisted of a tusk four feet and a half long, four grmders, and the bones of 
the head. The teeth were in very good preservation, but the bones and tusk too much decayed to 
be removed, though great care was exercised in order to preserve them. My friend Mr. Robert 
Drewitt, who now resides at Peppering, informs me, that his father found also a tusk near seven 
feet long and other bones of the Elephant at a short distance from the locality of the former 
discovery. This spot may be considered as a similar deposit to Dr. Mantell’s Elephant-bed at 
Brighton, the Post-Pliocene formation of Mr. Lyell. The remains of elephants have been dis- 
covered at Burton, in Arundel Park, at Brighton, and in other parts of Sussex, and I may say, 
in most counties of England. 
Fig. 3. Pecten polymorphus, Bronn, p. 627: natural size. Described at great length with 
several varieties in Philippi’s ‘Enumeratio Molluscorum Siciliz,’ pp. 79 and 85, both as fossil 
and recent. This shell I believe has not been observed before in this country; I have several 
specimens of it, some much larger, from the muddy deposit in which the Elephant’s head was 
discovered ; it occurs with other marine shells which are not now found recent on the coast. 
I am much obliged to Mr. G. B. Sowerby for naming the more obvious examples of this 
deposit ; the Lutraria rugosa and the Pullastra aurea are not uncommon in the Post-Pliocene 
deposits at Bracklesham Bay. 
Those marked with an asterisk are found quite recent on the shore. 
Shells named by G. B. Sowerby.—Most of the shells named in this list are well-known and 
common species belonging to the shores of Britain; one however is a very remarkable exception, 
namely the Lutraria rugosa, a species which abounds in some parts of the Mediterranean, and 
of which I possess specimens in a fossil state from Astigianii—G. B. S. 
Pholas Dactylus. Mactra stultorum*. 
—— crispata. subtruncata*. 
— candida*. Nucula margaritacea. 
Saxicava rugosa}. Amphidesma Boysii. 
Solen Siliqua. Lucina Radula. 
Lutraria Listeri. Pullastra vulgaris*. 
arenaria. decussata. 
——— Solenoides. — aurea ft. 
rugosa. perforans. 
Mya arenaria. Venus verrucosa. 
truncata. Cardium edule. 
+ These shells are frequently found in the Eocene rocks of this locality, and on breaking the 
stone their perforations are well observed. 
t The specimens of this shell resemble the Mediterranean variety. —G. B. S. 
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