432 Miscellaneous — The Stiitlgart Mammoth. 



August 21, 1913. H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, Governor- 

 General of the Dominion, has consented to become Honorary 

 President. Fuller particulars relating to arrangements will be issued 

 later. Meanwhile the Executive Committee, with Professor P. D. 

 Adams, P.R.S., as President, have been making arrangements for 

 a series of excursions before, during, and after the meeting of the 

 Congress. These will be planned so as to afford an insight into the 

 geology and physiography of Canada, including the mineral and other 

 natural resources of all the more accessible portions of the country. 



The following topics have been selected by the Executive Committee 

 as the principal subjects for discussion at the Congress: — 



1. The coal resources of the world. 



2. Differentiation in igneous magmas. 



3. The influence of depth on the character of metalliferous deposits. 



4. The origin and extent of the pre- Cambrian sedimentaries. 



5. The sub-divisions, correlation, and terminology of the pre-Cambrian. 



6. To what extent was the Ice Age broken by interglacial periods? 



7. The physical and faunal characteristics of the Paleozoic seas with 

 reference to the value of the recurrence of seas in establishing geologic systems. 



Correspondence should be addressed to the Secretary, International 

 Geological Congress, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Canada. 



The Stuttgaet Mammoth. — There has just been mounted by 

 Dr. Eberhard Praas for exhibition in the Royal Natural History 

 ]iluseum, Stuttgart, a specimen which may certainly be regarded as 

 the largest nearly complete mammoth skeleton yet discovered. 



In August, 1910, there were found at Steiuheim, in the diluvial 

 deposits of the River Murr, a tributary of the Neckar, in Swabia, 

 a number of fossil bones indicating the remains of an unusually large 

 mammoth. As a proof of its size it may be noted that the skull 

 weighs nearly three-quarters of a ton, and the height of the skeleton 

 is over 13 feet. 



The specimen is remarkable for the abnormal length of the legs ; 

 probably it was a swift-moving animal ; and for a degree of general 

 lightness of frame, indicating activity. The tusks are well shaped 

 Avith a slight semicircular curve, but are much less in size than the 

 normal type, being only 7| feet in length, whereas many of the 

 Siberian and American specimens have tusks double that size. These 

 features lead naturalists to regard it as belonging to a late type of 

 mammoth when the transition to the smaller and more active elephants 

 was commencing. 



It is so fine a specimen that it is to be hoped that casts of at least 

 the most important portions of the skeleton may be obtained for our 

 Natural Historv Museum in London. 



We regret to record the sudden death of the Rev. Robert Ashington 

 Bullen, B.A. (Loud.), F.L.S., P.G.S.. P.Z.S., F.R.A.L, Memb. 

 Malac. Soc, of Hilden Manor, Tonbridge, Kent, when crossing 

 to Germany by the Calais night mail boat on August 14. He was 

 interred at Brookwood on August 20. We hope to publish an 

 account of his work next month. 



