9Q Miscellaneous. 



and Koh-i-noor, but it is chiefly remarkable for its colour, which is 

 described as soft blue and white. This is the second large diamond 

 found in the last two years in the Union, for it will be remembered 

 that a stone weighing 442£ carats was found in the Dutoitspan 

 Mine, near Kimberley, in October, 1917. 



Dr. F. H. Hatch "described and figured "The Great Cullinan 

 Diamond" in the Geological Magazine for 1905, Vol. XLII, 

 pp. 170-2, with two plates (VII and VIII) and a diagram of the 

 external form in the text. 



Award of Medals by the Geological Society. 



The Council of the Geological Society has this year awarded the 

 Medals and Funds as follows : — The Wollaston Medal to Sir Aubrey 

 Strahan, Director of H.M. Geological Survey; the Murchison Medal 

 to Miss G. L. Elles, of Newnham College, Cambridge ; the Lyell 

 Medal to Dr. W. F. Hume, Director of the Egyptian Geological 

 Survey; the Bigsby Medal to Sir Douglas Mawson ; the Wollaston 

 Fund to Dr. A. L. Du Toit, of the Geological Survey of South 

 Africa; and the Murchison Fund to Mrs. Reid, widow of the late 

 Mr. Clement Reid ; while the Lyell Fund is divided between 

 Mr. John Pringle, of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, 

 and Dr. Stanley Smith, of University College, Aberystwyth. 



Pulcrus of Rome, the first to make a Restoration of an 

 Extinct Mammal. 



"The grammarian Apollonius relates that there was an earth- 

 quake during the reign of Tiberius Nero, through which many 

 celebrated cities of Asia were entirely destroyed ... In those 

 parts in which the earth was rent asunder very large dead bodies 

 were found; the magnitude of which, indeed, so astonished the 

 inhabitants, that they were unwilling to move them. That the 

 affair, however, might be generally known, they sent to Rome one 

 of the teeth of these bodies; and this was more than afoot long. 

 The ambassadors, at the time they showed this to Tiberius, asked 

 him whether he wished that the hero to whom this tooth belonged' 

 should be brought to him. Upon this Tiberius very prudently 

 thought of a means by which he might neither be deprived of 

 knowing the dimensions of this body nor yet be guilty of the 

 impiety of robbing the dead. He ordered a celebrated geometrician, 

 whose name was Pulcrus, and whom he honoured for his art, to be 

 called, and desired him to make a face in proportion to the size of 

 that tooth. The geometrician, therefore, having calculated from the 

 size of the tooth the dimensions of the face and of the whole body, 

 accomplished the task imposed on him with great celerity, and 

 brought the face to the Emperor, who, after he had satisfied himself 

 with beholding it, ordered the tooth to be restored to the place from 

 whence it was taken " — Phlegon Trallianus, " On Admirable Things," 

 ex notce Taylor, ed. Pausanias, i, 97, in iii (1824), 240. 



C. Davies Sherborn. 



