1-iO Geolocjical Society. 



PllOCEEDIJs^GS OF LEARNED SOCIETTES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



March 11th, 1914.— Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., President ; 



and afterwards Dr. H. H. Bemrose, J.P., Yice-Presideut, 



in the Chair. 



Mr. E. T. Newtox, in exhibiting a series of small mam- 

 malian and other remains from the rock-shelter of 

 La Colombiere, near Poncin (Ain), said that, during tlie 

 year 1913, Dr. Lucien Mayet and M. Jean Pissot Avere working 

 systematically at the prolific deposits of this locality, and towards 

 the end of the year made known the discovery of a number of 

 incised bones and stones, representing the human form as well as 

 several animals. This discovery was jjublished in the C R. Acad. 

 Sci. Paris (vol. clvii. p. 605), and some account of it, with several 

 figures, appeared in the ' Illustrated London News ' for November 

 1st, 1913. 



The upper part of the deposit is referred to the Neolithic and 

 Magdalenian ages : but below this, at a depth of 6|- feet, a bed 

 (10 inches thick) was found, which yielded the incised di-a wings 

 above mentioned, as Avell as numerous mammalian remains and 

 flint-implements ; and this is regarded as of Aurignacian age. 

 Immediately below the last-mentioned bed a deposit of sand and 

 small rock-fragments was peneti-ated to a depth of 10 feet, 

 and this deposit, also referred to the Aurignacian, was fomid to 

 contain an enormous number of bones of small mammals and other 

 animals. Some twent}^ species have ah-eady been recognized by 

 the discoverers. 



The large nimiber of small bones now shown were obtained by 

 the exhibitor in sifting about 1 cubic foot of this lower, remarkably 

 prolific, deposit, which had been sent to him by Dr. Lucien Mayet, 

 of Lyons. 



The following communication was read : — 



' On an apparently Palaeolithic Engraving on a Bone from 

 Sherborne (Dorset).' By Arthm- Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 Pres.G.S. 



The author is indebted to Mr. R. Elliot Steel, of Sherborne 

 School, for the opportunity of studying a fragment of bone bearing 

 an incised di'awing of the fore-part of a horse in the style of 

 drawings already w'ell known from several habitations of Palaeolithic 

 Man. The specimen was found by schoolboys in an old mound of 



