APPENDIX B. 



ADDITIONAL NOTICES. 



FOSSILS OF STONESFIELD. 



Some curious specimens occur at Stonesfield, of brown or 

 black colour, formed of a thin uniform substance without ap- 

 parent structure, spheroidal in figure, as well as this can be ascer- 

 tained in their actual state of compression, and from one to two 

 inches in diameter. Originally flexible, as it appears, they are 

 found variously squeezed, as a thin bladder may be supposed to 

 have been. They have usually been ranked among the fruits, but 

 in our arrangement have been classed as eggs. Mr. Carruthers 

 has rejected them from among plants. 



CETEOSAURUS. 



Additional caudal vertebrae of this animal have been discovered 

 near Chipping-Norton, in laminated beds which appear to cor- 

 respond with those of Kirtlington. A tooth of megalosaurus was 

 obtained at the same place. 



ELEPHAS PKIMIGENIUS. 



At Yarnton, which some years ago yielded many remains of this 

 animal, the deep and extensive gravel deposit has been re-opened 

 by the Railway Company ; and, as before, tusks and teeth of the 

 mammoth have been found in the lower part of the water- drifted 

 mass, above a rough aggregate of large pebbles. One tusk has 

 been measured to a length of 7 feet 6 inches. 



VALLEY GRAVELS. 



On several occasions of late years cuttings into the alluvial 

 deposits in the flat alluvial valley of the Thames, near Oxford, have 



