122 Miscellaneous. 



ft. in. 



1. Chalk rubble 10 



2. Fine sand and flints, with elephant re- 



mains 3 



3. Sand and ferriif^inous gravel ? 



4. Flint-material, waterworn ? 



6. Sand, the lower portion with different- 

 sized flints .. ? 



There were no shells or Microzoa. 



The Author speculated on the probable lapse of time, and on the 

 importauce of the discovery oi E. mem^ionc/^is, a pregiacial mammal, 

 so far west. A list of the bones found was given. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Transverse Bone of a Chelonian. 



By G. A. BOTILENGEE. 



I EEGEET to see that my paper " On the Transverse Bone of a 

 Chelonian " is piiblished in the last No. of the ' Annals ' without the 

 corrections which I made on the proof having been attended to *. 



Thus, the bone lettered vom. on the figure should be ^)rt?. and the 

 azygous bone should be lettered vom., as may be seen by a com- 

 parison with the text. 



I now find that I was mistaken in believing in the existence 

 of a transverse bone in Hydraf^pis Hilairii. Professor Stewart, 

 after examining a young specimen of the same species without 

 finding the bone in question, suggested to me that I might 

 have been deceived by the presence of a very deep groove in 

 the jugal, a view which has been confirmed on complete disarticu- 

 lation of one side of the skull. I had, however, previously taken 

 the precaution of partly detaching the bones, and, finding the suture 

 formed by the anterior and posterior borders of the groove to extend 

 as far inwards as I could see, it did not occur to me that what 

 appeared to be two distinct bones could in reality be but one. 



On the ^'■Nursing "-habits of Dendrobates. 



By G. A. BotTLENGER. 



Professor Liitken has kindly drawn my attention to a contribu- 

 tion by Wyman which I had overlooked when writing upon the 

 nursing-habits of Batrachians. The curious habit of Dendrobates of 



* [This was entirely owing to the Author not having returned his proof 

 before the last day of the month. — W. F.] 



