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indeed, we consider tliat the Pleistocene land-surface extended from Africa north- 

 wards as far as the huudred-fiithoni line, to say the least, iu the Atlantic oft' the 

 coast of Ireland, it is no wonder that the African animals, such as the Spotted 

 Hyrena and the Felis cnffer, should have ranged as far north as Yorkshire ; for the 

 only barrier would he that offered by the severity of the Pleistocene winter. The 

 Hippopotamus and the Striped Ilyrena found in the eaves of Lunel-Viol and of 

 Spain cannot be cited as evidence of a continuity of land between Africa and 

 Europe in the Pleistocene age, because they were European Pliocene species, and 

 may therefore, like the horse, have lived on into the succeeding- age without any 

 migration. 



lals of Mount Leheron {Vauduse), 

 Bij Professor Albert GAumu'. 



The author stated that he had made excavations near Cucuron in Mount Leheron, 

 where Christol, Gervais, and others had already made some researches — and 

 that he had there obtained about 12' iO bones, which are deposited in the Museum 

 of Natural History at Paris. The following is a list of species obtained : — 



3IacIiairodus cuUridcns. Sas mnjor. 



Ictitherium hipparionum, or Ic. ruhiistum. JMladutherinm Duvcrnoyi. 



Orbif/>v/i? Traijnccnts unmltlwus, 



Jlijana eximiu. Giirmlla dcperditu. 



Dinotherium (a very large species). Cervm Mathcronis. 



Jthinoceros SchkiennacJicri. Tedudo (a very large species), 



Aceyolh.erium incisivum ? Testudo (a small species). 

 Ilippavion (jracile, 



■ All of these species, except Ccrms Matlieronis and TcsUtdo, liad been found by 

 the author at Pilieruii in Attica. In comparing the 1200 bones from Mount 

 Leberon with the 4940 bones from Pikermi, tlie author had been struck with the 

 variations exhibited by animals that seem to have descended from the same parents. 

 He also noticed that the presence of numerous herbivores, such as Ilipparion, Tra- 

 f/ocerus, and Ganiella, and of one so large as IleUadotherium, proves that a great 

 extent of meadow-land and a varied scenery must have existed at the end of the 

 Miocene period. 



The author considered tliat the fossils of Leberon are somewhat more recent 

 than those of Eppelsheim, but about the same age as those of Pikermi in Greece, 

 Baltaver in Hungary, and Concud in Spain. The age of the beds iu which they 

 occur at Mount Leberon is very clearly seen from the following Table : — ■ 



7. Terrestrial beds, with bones of Hqiparion and other animals. 



6. Lacustrine marls, with Helix ChristoU. 



5. Marls with Oslrea crassissima. 



4. Littoral marine beds, with Cnrditd Jouanncti and other fossils, as at Salles. 



3. Yellow ]Mollas.3e, with Osfren lioltluyi and Peeten planosuladm. 



2. Grey Mollasse ; fossils rare or absent. Probably found in a deep sea. 



1. Neocomiau beds. 



On the Prospect of finding Productive Coal-measures in Norfollc and Suffolh, 

 with Sur/(jcstions as to the place u'here an Experimental Boriny should he 

 made. By the Eev. J. Guns', F.G.S. 



IMr. Gunn showed that the Anglo-Belgian Basin had existed from the Forest- 

 bed period to that of the Pakeozoic rocks, that it was bounded by such rocks 

 on the east and the south, that a remnant at Harwich indicated that such also was 

 its boundary to the west, that it v»'as open to the sea to the north, very favourably 

 to the formation of coal — that there was proof of the existence of forests in this 

 basin, wliich had been repeatedly elevated and depressed at various times, and that 

 the seams of coal on the Belgian side were proved to have increased, rather than 

 thinned, as they approached the coast. On these grounds Mr. Gunn thought an 

 experimental boring was desirable ; and ho fixed upon Hunstanton, because the 



