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throwing light upon the functions of the human body. I 
need not tell the Fellows of the Royal Physical Society that 
such a view of “man’s place in nature” is absurd and un- 
scientific. No unbiassed student of cerebral anatomy and 
physiology will deny the importance of such work as that 
of Hitzig and Fritsch, Ferrier, Munk, Gudden, Horsley, 
Schaefer, and Mott. Indeed, we may all rejoice that our 
recent advances in the anatomy and physiology. of the 
cerebral cortex have led to such great advances in the 
diagnosis and treatment of its diseases. 
I. The Glacial Fauna of King Edward, in Banffshire. By 
ALFRED Bett, Esq Communicated by JAMES BENNIE, 
Esq., H.M. Geological Survey. 
(Read 21st December 1892.) ; 
The sands and gravels that have yielded the organic 
remains noticed in this paper occur at an elevation of 
about 200 feet above the sea-level, in irregularly stratified 
beds of yellow and black clay, sometimes alternating with 
seams of fine sands, in the banks of a small burn near King 
Edward, about five miles from Banff. 
The clay itself contains numerous glaciated stones and shell 
fragments, principally Cyprina islandica, and has been derived 
from the waste of the older Oxfordian clay, the characteristic 
ammonites being not infrequent. Clean sand yields the most 
perfect examples, these being fewest where crushed and 
broken débris attest the pressure the sands have undergone. 
The fauna given up by these gravels is very remarkable, 
and appears to belong to the later stages of the period of 
intensest cold, many of the species occurring in the clays of. 
Bridlington, in Yorkshire, in masses of transported sand 
introduced in a frozen state. The present habitats of the 
species recorded range from the confines of the Arctic Circle 
to the island of Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen, at an average 
depth of about 400 fathoms, the greatest depth given by 
Herman Friele in’ “Den Norske Nordhavs Expedition, 
1876-1878,” being 1861 fathoms. | 
