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of these strize having been produced by landslips or local disturbance. 
A quarry on the same horizon, near Rochdale, exhibits similar phe- 
nomena. As collateral evidence of ice-action, he alluded to the 
boulders frequently found in the coal-seams. 
4. “The Greensand Bed at the Base of the Thanet Sand.” By 
Miss Margaret I. Gardiner, Bathurst Student, Newnham College, 
Cambridge. Communicated by J. J. H. Teall, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 
This bed may be seen between Pegwell Bay on the east and 
Chislehurst on the west, and a somewhat similar bed occurs at 
Sudbury, Suffolk. An examination of the Kentish layer showed it 
to consist of 45 per cent. of quartz, 15 per cent. of glauconite, and ° 
40 per cent. of flint. Amongst the rarer minerals are felspar, 
magnetite, spinel, zircon, garnet, rutile, tourmaline, actinolite, epidote, 
and chalcedony; and there are a few microscopic organisms, either 
Radiolarians or Diatoms, and some Foraminiferal casts. 
The Sudbury Greensand has 75 per cent. of its grains consisting 
of glauconite, and of the quartz- and flint-grains only 10 per cent. 
are flint ; several of the rarer minerals found in Kent occur here also. 
The large flint-percentage in the Kentish grains was alluded to 
in support of the existence of an unconformity at the base of the 
Tertiary deposits of that area; and the relatively small percentage 
of flint in the sands now being formed along a very similarly situated 
shore was suggested to be due to the drifting débris derived from 
the coasts composed of Tertiary and Wealden rocks, which became 
mixed with the material brought down by the Thames. 
5. ‘On the Occurrence of Elephas meridionalis at Dewlish, Dorset. 
By the Rev. O. Fisher, M.A., F.G.S. 
The author’s attention was first drawn to this subject on seeing two 
molars of an elephant in the Blackmore Museum labelled ‘« Dewlish, 
Dorset.” He at once attributed them to EH. meridionalis. Subse- 
quently he ascertained that they were part of a find made in 1818 
by a Mr. Hall. Dr. Falconer, from rubbings, attributed the teeth to 
E. antiquus; and Dr. Leith-Adams would not allow that they 
belonged to EH. meridionalis, because that species had never been 
found so far west. Last year the author and Mr. Mansel-Pleydell 
went to Dewlish, and the latter has since continued the workings. 
The remains have been found high up on the face of a steep chalk 
scarp facing west, 10 feet below the brow and 90 feet above the 
existing stream, in such a position as to suggest that the deposit was 
the result of an undercut of the stream when it flowed at a higher 
level. It probably lies in the prolongation of a line of fault with a 
deviation to the east. The following section was given :— 
ft. in. 
1. Chalk rubble... .. Hh Wl tae ce OM AIO) 
2. Fine sand and flints, with elephant remains... 3 0 
3. Sand and ferruginous gravel.. Scape ees 2 
4, Flint-material, “waterworn ... a0 p 
5. Sand, the lower portion with different-sized flints P 
There were no shells or Microzoa. 
The author speculated on the probable lapse of time, and on the 
importance of the discovery of E. meridionalis, a pre-glacial mammal, 
so far west. A list of the bones found was given. 
