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animals which ought to have been dead millions of years 
before the formation of the Chalk Sea ! 
FORMER LEEDS PROFESSOR HONOURED. 
Reuter announces that the Royai Academy of Science, 
Stockholm, has awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for 
1915 to Professor A. R. Willstaetter, of Berlin, and that the 
prize for Physics should be divided between Professor W. H. 
Bragg, formerly of Leeds, and his son, W. L. Bragg, of Cam- 
bridge, ‘ for examination of the formation of crystals by X-rays.’ 
This announcement gives great satisfaction in Leeds, for until 
September last the Professor was Cavendish Professor of 
Physics at the University of Leeds, where he carried out a 
good deal of that research work into the formation of crystals 
by X-rays, which has gained for him and his son their signal 
honour. The Professor now occupies the Quain Chair of. 
Physics in London University. His son is at present in France 
as an officer in the Leicestershire Royal Horse Artillery (Terri- 
torials). The value of the Nobel Prize is £8,000. 
A SKELETON OF ELEPHAS ANTIQUUS. 
At a recent meeting of the London Geological Society, Dr. 
C. W. Andrews, F.R.S., gave an account of the discovery and 
excavation of a very large specimen of Elephas antiquus near 
Chatham. The specimen was originally discovered about three 
years ago by a party of sappers who were digging a trench. The 
attention of the British Museum was drawn to this find by 
Mr. S. Turner, of Luton, Chatham. The extraction of the bones 
was delayed until the past summer. A great part of the 
skeleton has now been collected, owing largely to the skill of 
Mr. L. E. Parsons, Junr. The skull, unfortunately, was in a very 
bad condition, but two complete upper and one lower second 
molars were obtained. One tusk, about 7 or 8 feet long, 
was also found. The lower ends of both femora were des- 
troyed in the original trench, but of the other limb-bones, 
nearly complete specimens from one or both sides have been 
obtained, as well as a sufficiently large series of bones of the 
feet to allow of their reconstruction. Many vertebre were 
also collected. The animal, which was adult, must have been 
of very large size, having stood about fifteen feet at the highest 
part of the back, or more than three-and-a-half feet higher 
than the large African Elephant mounted in the Entrance 
Hall of the Natural History Museum. The molar teeth show 
conclusively that the species represented is Elephas antiquus, 
and from the thickness of the enamel and some other characters, 
it may be inferred that the animal was probably of a type as 
early as, or earlier than, that found at Grays. It is the first 
British example of this species in which the skeleton has been 
found directly associated with the teeth. 
Naturalist, 
