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phical headings; 2. Physical Geology, as Phenomena of under¬ 
ground origin, Surface phenomena, and Rock-formation; 3. Applied 
and Economic Geology ; 4. Petrology; 5. Mineralogy; 6. Palaeon¬ 
tology, taking in order the Vertebrates, Invertebrates, and Plants ; 
7. Maps and Sections; 8. Miscellaneous and General; together 
with Supplements for 1874-6, a very valuable Index of new 
Species (rocks, minerals, and fossils), and, lastly, an excellent 
General Index. The long list of periodicals supplying memoirs and 
notices, treated of in abstract, occupies 14 pages. Numerous hooks, 
of course, are noticed in their respective places according to their 
subjects. Altogether the year 1876 has evidently produced a fair 
harvest of geological work ; and the ‘ Record ’ may be likened to the 
reaper, binder, stacker, thresher, and winnower of the golden graiu 
of knowledge, enabling some to compile now and valuable accumu¬ 
lations, others to use and digest excellent aliment for their intellec¬ 
tual progress, and others to sow chosen and most promising seed, 
in well prepared furrows, for the benefit of future students. 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
November 6, 1878.—Henry Clifton Sorby, Esq., F.R.S., 
President, in the Chair. 
The following communications were read :— 
1. “ On the Range of the Mammoth in Space and Time.” By 
Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. 
The author expressed his opinion that the result of the evidence 
collected since the death of Dr. Falconer has been to establish the 
view of that palaeontologist as to the Mammoth having appeared in 
Britain before the Glacial epoch. The evidence as to the occurrence 
of the Mammoth in the south of England was first examined. The 
remains found beneath the bed of erratics near Pagham belonged, 
not to Elephas primigenius, but to E. antiquus. But in 1858 re¬ 
mains belonging to the former were found by Prof. Prestwich under 
Boulder-clay in Hertfordshire. In Scotland remains of E. primi- 
genius have been found under Boulder-clay; but whether under the 
oldest Boulder-clay is uncertain. In 1878 a portion of a molar was 
brought up from a depth of 65 feet near Northwich; it was in a 
sand beneath Boulder-clay, which the author considered to be un¬ 
doubtedly the older Boulder-clay. The author now assents to Dr. 
Falconer’s opinion (which he formerly doubted) that E. primigenius 
was a member of the Cromer Forest-bed fauna. It is also clear 
that it was living in the southern and central parts of England in 
Postglacial times. It has not been found north of Yorkshire on the 
east, and Holyhead on the west, probably because Scotland and North¬ 
west England were long occupied by glaciers. Its remains have 
