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said that, at a recent meeting of the Literary and Philosophical 
Society, Mr. Brockbank exhibited some remains of the Mammoth, or 
extinct Elephant, found at Waterhouse, near Leek, on the border of 
Staffordshire, in a fissure of the limestone. When Mr. Brockbank 
laid those specimens before the Literary and Philosophical Society, 
he stated that he had never heard of such remains having been found 
in Derbyshire before. Mr. Watson, however, had stated that 100 
years before his day the remains of an Elephant were found in a lime- 
stone-crevice at Wirksworth. The people resident in the neighbour- 
hood believed the teeth to be those of a giant, whose ‘ brain-pan’ 
was so large that it would hold two bushels of corn. There was 
also evidence of the finding of an Elephant’s molar at Adlington; 
and Mr. James Meadows, of Ashton, recently exhibited an Elephant’s 
tusk which he found at Dove-Holes, near Chapel-en-le-Frith. It 
was true that the evidences of the remains of such animals as the 
Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Rhinoceros were much rarer on the 
western than on the eastern side of the island, but the authorities 
that had been quoted showed that they had once existed.—Mr. 
J. Plant remarked that tusks and teeth of Elephants were frequently 
found in Leicestershire. 
2. A paper, by Mr. J. Taytor, on ‘The Pliocene and Post-Plio- 
cene Deposits in the neighbourhood of Norwich,’ was read. The 
paper showed that there was a considerable difference between the 
Drift in- the neighbourhood of Norwich and the Drift near Man- 
chester, where the character of some of the fossils appeared to be 
more Arctic.—Mr. Binney said that he did not think the fossils 
alluded to in the neighbourhood of Manchester were of so Arctic a 
character as appeared to be generally supposed.—Mr. J. Dickinson 
said that in some respects the paper confirmed views he had pre- 
viously expressed to that Society, and which led him to think that 
great changes would shortly take place in the minds of some of the 
most eminent geologists on important matters connected with the 
science. 
3. Mi. PLant gave an account of the discovery of a large bed 
of hazel-nuts, in a fine state of preservation, in an alluvial deposit 
at Collyhurst, 13 ft. deep, and in a part of the bed of the Irk 
where the river had once been 500 yards wide. The deposit was 
composed of sand, gravel, and river-silt, and rested on the Per- 
mian sandstone. He believed it to have been quietly deposited ; 
and probably the river had at that point been in the shape of a large 
lake, surrounded by forests of hazel-trees. He thought that the 
deposit was of such a character that the nuts had been placed there 
two or three thousand years ago.—Mr. Binney said he had had evi- 
dence of a similar deposit having been made in the valley of the 
Roach in fifty years, and judging by the remarks of Mr. Ray about 
the wooded state of the country around Collyhurst, he should think 
that the nuts were deposited not more than 100 or 150 years ago. — 
Manchester Guardian, Dec. 21, 1864. 
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