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jaw with the last three molar teeth in position, and belongs to the 
Crag collection of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. It differs in 
a marked degree from all fossil European Carnivores, and presents 
no important points of difference when compared with a series of 
jaws of recent Ailurus. The author gave a description of the fossil 
and comparison of it with Ailurus fulgens, and also a table giving 
the comparative measurements of the teeth and jaws of the fossil 
and of recent Ailuri. The species from the Crag was a more powerful 
animal than any recent Ailuri in the British Museum. The paper 
concluded with a notice of the range of Ailurus in space and time. 
2. “A Contribution to the Geology and Physical.Geography of 
the Cape Colony.” By Prof. A. H. Green, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. 
The account given in this paper of the geology of Cape Colony 
was founded on observations made during a visit to the country of 
four months’ duration for the purpose of reporting upon the coal. 
A considerable portion of the colony was traversed by the author, 
and, owing to the clear atmosphere and the barrenness of the 
surface, the rocks were unusually well seen. Much, too, had been 
ascertained by previous observers. 
The grouping of the South-African rocks adopted was the 
following :— 
Volcanic Beds, 9 d. 
Cave Sandstone, 9 ¢. 
9. Stormberg Beds Bed Bedewoe! 
Molteno Beds, 9 a. 
. Karoo Beds. 
. Kimberley Shales. 
Great Unconformity. 
. Keca Beds. 
. Dwyka Conglomerate. 
Unconformity. 
. Quartzite of the Zuurbergen, Zwartebergen, and Wittebergen. 
. Bokkeveldt Beds. 
. Table-Mountain Sandstone. 
Great Unconformity. 
1. Sa ae intrusive Granite of the neighbourhood of Cape Town (Malmesbury 
eds). 
Of the four lowest subdivisions very little was seen. The Bokke- 
veldt Beds had yielded fossils referred to Devonian. The detailed 
descriptions commenced with the Dwyka Conglomerate, which was 
coarse, containing both rolled and angular fragments, the matrix, 
which was ill bedded, resembling granitic detritus. Some of the 
boulders suggested doubtfully the action of ice. The Heca Beds 
consisted of hardened sandy clays, without lamination, and often 
weathering in spheroids, and resembling decomposed basalt or 
dolerite. These beds in the Ecca Pass, north-east of Grahamstown, 
were nearly 5000 feet thick. 
The Kimberley Shales were mainly grey and dark sandy shales, 
with a few thin layers of argillaceous limestone. At their base a 
conglomerate, resembling the Dwyka Conglomerate, was sometimes 
found. The Karoo Beds were red and purple shales, with buff or 
reddish sandstone containing much decomposed felspar. 
The Molteno Beds, also sandstones and shales, usually grey- and 
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