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communicate was that the data pointed to the nearness of the 

 eastern margin of the coalfield. 



Dr. Walcot Gibson, who followed, was rather more pes- 

 simistic, and while pointing out that recent explorations had 

 considerably increased the proved area, suggested caution as 

 regards the south-eastern portion of the area. Mr. Culpin's 

 account of the recent additions to our knowledge of the marine 

 bands in the coal measures of the Doncaster district,"*' was warmly 

 received, while Mr. Usher discussed the probable influence of the 

 Caledonian and American systems of earth movements on the 

 limits of the basin. 



There was general regret that Professor Milne was not 

 present to communicate the Seismological Report, which was 

 read in his absence by Sir Archibald Geikie. 



To sum up the results of the meeting, one can say that 

 if no startling communications were made, the papers were quite 

 up to the average. The President's address, the Seismological 

 Report, the Carboniferous Zones Report, with its correlation of 

 the Belgian Lower Carboniferous Rocks with those of the 

 Avon district, by Dr. Arthur Vaughan ; the opening of the 

 •discussion on the eastern extension of the Midland coalfield, by 

 Professor Kendall, and Mr. Lamplugh's description of the 

 oscillations of the Sefstron glacier, were perhaps its outstanding 

 features. 



Tooth of Elephas antiquus in Holderness. — Professor 

 W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., recently made an examination of 

 the remains of extinct animals in the Hull ]\Iuseum. Amongst 

 a number of elephant teeth from the Yorkshire coast he identi- 

 fied one as belonging to the Straight-tuske.d Elephant [Elephas 

 antiquus). The tooth measures 6 inches by 4 inches by i| 

 inches, and consists of eight plates. It was found on the beach 

 at Withernsea in 1903, and had doubtless been washed from the 

 cliffs in the same way as were dozens of other teeth and tusks 

 found on this coast. Remains of Elephas antiquus have not 

 previously been recorded for the Holderness coast, but as they 

 occur in the pre-glacial beach at Sewerby, it is quite possible 

 that the tooth may have been derived from some such source, 

 and carried southward by glacial action. Professor Dawkins' 

 determination adds another species to the list of animal remains 

 from the glacial beds of Holderness. — T. Sheppard. 



* See page 375, 



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