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Mr. Arraur Smuira Woopwarp, F.G.S.—I think, sir, I should not 
like to say much in regard to this subject except to call attention 
to the collection of Mr. Leeds near Peterborough. Mr. Leeds 
has made an enormous collection of bones from the Oxford Clay 
near Peterborough, bones of the same character as these, and it is 
really remarkable, on looking over that collection, to find so great 
a number of records of accidents that happened when these 
creatures were fighting one with another. He has several of those 
bones which have been broken and mended again, and many others 
which show teeth-marks. In one particular instance he has a 
crocodile femur with a hole pierced right through it where the 
teeth of one of these large saurians must have bitten the bone and 
left its impression. That hole is quite obviously made by these 
teeth. It is scratched all round, and has nothing like the polish 
and finish and symmetry of the holes which are artificially made 
by man. 
The AvutHor.—A question which is very much to the point was 
raised by Mr. Park Harrison when he said, Can that bone have 
come out of a pocket or out of any derived deposit whatever ? 
That is the kind of thing 1 have always been looking out for, and 
that is the kind of question I anticipated being asked, because 
I have so often asked other men, when they have produced flint 
implements from what I considered to be improbable places, whether 
they might not have been procured from washed down material ; 
and in many cases I have proved this to have been the case. It is 
only after looking carefully into the question that I am going to 
reply. If I have any means of judging of undisturbed rock from 
the manner of the occurrence of fossils in sequence, and from the 
manner of occurrence of the clay between the layers of septarian 
nodules, it was certainly undisturbed Kimmeridge Clay from which 
‘the scored bone was procured. I have no hesitation whatever in 
saying that. It is not one of those doubtful points, upon which 
I think you will allow I am generally sufficiently cautious in making 
statements. So also, in reply to the remarks of Admiral Selwyn 
with regard to the material heaped up by cataclysms such as the 
earthquake waves of Lisbon or Krakatoa, I would point out that 
there are a great many tests to be applied to beds of gravel, by 
which you know how they are formed. If you find gravel 
with beds of .clay and loam and young shells in this bed and old 
shells in that bed, with fresh-water plants here and bones there, 
you cannot refer that to anything like an earthquake wave. The 
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