20 ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



Avere inJlcatlons of the existence of Triassic mammalia. 

 Two little teeth of the Microlestes had some years before 

 been discovered iu Germany, and were the only traces of" 

 this high Order in beds older than the Stonesfield Slate. 

 Mr. Moores minute researches had bi'ought to liglit fifteen 

 molar teeth, either identical with, or nearly allied to, the 

 Microlestes, and also five incisor teeth, evidently belonging 

 to more than one species. A very small double-fanged 

 tooth, not unlike the oolitic Spalacotherium, proved the 

 presence of another genus, and a fragment of a tooth, con- 

 sisting of a single fang, Avith a small part of the crown 

 attached, a third genus, larger in size than the Microlestes. 

 Three vertebra; belonging to an animal smaller than any 

 existing maramal had also been found. He inferred that 

 if tvventy-five teeth and vertebraj, belonging to three or 

 four geuera of mammalia, were to be found in the space 

 oecupied by three cubic yards of earth, that portion of the 

 globe T\hich was then dry land, and whence the material 

 was in part derived, was probably inhabited at that early 

 period by many genera of mammalia, and would serve to 

 encourage a hope that the remains of that class might yet 

 be found in beds of evcn more remote aa'e. 



S E C O N D D A Y 



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ün Tuesday morning a party of ladies and gentlemen 

 started on an excursion to several places in the neighbour- 

 hood. The weather was exceedingly uufavourable, showers 

 being frequent and severe, and the unpropitiousness of the 

 Clements prevented many, no doubt, from joining. The 

 more eager archasologists, however, were not to be detained 



