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by the Author. The consideration of the pala3obotanical evidence 

 enables him to classify the rocks as follows : — 



2. ' Some Remarks upon Mr. E. A. I^ewell Arbor's Commu- 

 nication : On the Clarke Collection of Fossil Plants from ^e\v 

 South Wales.' By Dr. F. Kurtz, Professor of Botany in the 

 University of Cordoba, Argentine Republic, 



The Author agrees with Mr. Arber's identification of Bhiptozamites 

 Gcepperti, which he takes to be a synonym of Ncegritrathioims 

 Hiislopi. Podozamites elongatus, however, he regards as different 

 from Noeggeratldopsis Hislopi. Reasons are given for holding this 

 opinion. Further, the Author does not consider that there is sufficient 

 evidence to warrant the separation of Otopteris ovaia from lihaco- 

 pteris imequilatera, in which species it may be retained, perhaps as a 

 variety. Eh. imequilatera has been found in the Argentine, and 

 was described by Geinitz as Otopteris argentina. A bibliography is 

 appended. 



December 17th, 1902.— Prof. Charles Lapworth, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following communication was read : — 



' The Elk (Alces machlis, Gray) in the Thames Yalley.' By 

 Edwin Tulley Newton, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



During the construction of the Staines Reservoirs some mamma- 

 lian remains were obtained from the alluvium of the Wraysbury 

 River, near the Thames at Youveney, At the request of Mr, T, I. 

 Pocock, of the Geological Survey, who is working in the district, 

 the engineers, Messrs. Walter Hunter & R. E. Middleton, 

 courteously submitted their specimens to the Author, who recog- 

 nized among them the skull and antlers, with other parts of the 

 skeleton, of a true elk {Alces machlis). These are described ; 

 allusion is made to the earlier records of this animal in Britain ; 

 and its distribution in time in this country, on the continent of 

 Europe, and in North America is also discussed. It appears that 

 Alces machlis has been frequently found in peaty deposits in many 

 parts of Great Britain and on the continent of Europe, but never 

 in Britain in association with the mammoth; and it 

 seems probable that in Europe and North America it was a rare 



