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PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIKTY. 



Doccmbor Ist, 1915. — Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., President, 

 iu the Chair. 



The Presidext exhibited lantern-slides lent by Prof. Elltot 

 Smith to illustrate the fossil human skull found at Talj^ai, Darling 

 Downs, Queensland, in 191-4. Tiie si)ecinien was brought to the 

 notice of the British Association in Sydney by l^rof . T. W. Edgeworth 

 David, and would shortly be described by him and Prof. Ai'thur 

 Smith. It was obtained from a river-deposit in which remains of 

 Diprofodon and other extinct marsupials had already been discovered, 

 and there could be no doubt that it belonged to the Pleistocene 

 fauna. It therefore explained the occurrence of the dingo with 

 the extinct marsupials. The skull is typically human and of the 

 primitive Australian type, but differs from all such skulls hitherto 

 lound in possessing relatively large canine teeth, which interlock 

 like those of an ape. The upper canine shows a large facet worn 

 to its base by the lower premolar. The discovery of the Talgai 

 skull is, therefore, an interesting sequel to that of Mr. Charles 

 Dawson's Piltdown skull, in which the canine teeth are even more 

 ape-like. 



The thanks of the Fellows present were accorded to Prof. Elliot 

 Smith. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Pareiasaurian Nomenclature. 



To the Editors of the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History.' 



Silts, — Mr. D. M. S. Watson published a paper in the Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist, for July 1914, "On the Nomenclature of the South 

 African Pariasauriaus," in which he revises the names at present 

 in use. 



The trouble arises mainly from the fact that Owen's type-sknU 

 of Pareiasaurus serridens is lost, and we have only a bad cast and a 

 fragment of lower jaw. In the British Museum are one nearly 

 perfect and two imperfect skeletons which have been referred to 

 Pareiasawus by every previous worker. The skeletons found in 

 Russia and others in South Africa have also been hitherto referred 

 to Pareiasaurus. 



Wutson has discovered iu the British Museum a number of 



