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homotaxial equivalent of the European strata referred to above, 
should be regarded as Upper Permian. The Upper Permian group 
of freshwater lamellibranchiata of Russia, which bears traces of 
genetic relationship with the Carboniferous Anthracosidee, and which 
was already well represented in Permo-Carboniferous and Lower 
Permian times, is, according to the Author, much older than the 
African fauna of the Beaufort Beds. These may be concluded to 
have migrated from Russia, the Gondwana Beds of India having 
probably been the connecting-link between all these deposits. 
The Author gives a description of the fossils of the Karoo Series 
which he has examined, including a diagnosis of the new genus in 
which he places the fossils already alluded to as having been pre- 
viously referred to the genus Naiadites. 
April 24, 1895.—Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., 
President, in the Chair. 
The following communication was read :— 
‘Supplementary Notes on the Systematic Position of the Trilo- 
bites.’ By H. M. Bernard, Esq, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.8. 
Since the publication of a paper by the Author in the ‘ Quarterly 
Journal of the Geological Society’ for 1894, two important papers 
by Dr. Beecher have appeared, giving details as to the structure and 
appendages of T'riarthrus. 
In the present paper the Author discusses in detail the more 
recent discoveries in the light of the affinity between Apus and the 
trilobites, and endeavours to show how the results obtained by 
Dr. Beecher bear on the larger question as to the suggested origin 
of both of these animals from a cheetopod annelid modified in 
adaptation to a new manner of feeding. 
May 22, 1895.—Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., 
President, in the Chair. 
The following communications were read :— 
1. ‘On a Human Skull and Limb-bones found in the Palolithie 
Terrace-Gravels at Galley Hill, Kent.’ By E. T. Newton, Esq., 
F.RS., F.GS., 
A human skull with lower jaw and parts of the limb-bones were 
obtained by Mr. R. Elliott from the high-terrace gravels at 
Galley Hill, in which numerous Paleolithic implements have been 
found. 
The skull is extremely long and narrow, its breadth-index being 
about 64, it is hyperdolichocephalic ; it is likewise much depressed, 
having a height-index of about 67. The small extent of the cranium 
in both height and width shows that it has undergone little or no 
post-mortem compression, although it has become somewhat twisted 
indrying. The supraciliary ridges are large, the forehead somewhat 
receding, the probole prominent, and the occiput flattened below. 
All the chief sutures are obliterated. Three lower molars and two 
premolars are in place and are well worn, the three molars being as 
