334 Miscellaneous. 
cial importance has reached us from New Zealand for some time 
past. Work is now very steadily prosecuted on the different gold- 
fields in Otago; still the total yield is falling off. The Wakamarina 
also has been partially deserted, no new discoveries of any importance 
having been made near it lately. The diggings on the west coast 
are, however, improving as the season advances, two steamers having 
arrived at Nelson in one day with 1,415 oz., which had been pur- 
chased within a few days at the Okitiki. This is near the Grey, and 
between 700 and 1,000 miners are now at work. They declare them- 
_selves to be satisfied with their returns, but no very rich ground 
would appear to have been opened by them as yet.—Colonial News- 
paper, April 1865. : 
DISCOVERY OF AN ALMOST ENTIRE SKULL OF RHINOCEROS LEPTO- 
RHINUS, AT ILForD, Ess—Ex.—A very fine skull of the Rhinoceros 
leptorhinus of Cuvier and Owen has recently been found in the 
Uphall Brickfield, ford, and in close proximity to the spot where 
the skull and tusks of the Mammoth were discovered, which were 
secured last autumn for the National Collection. The head is nearly 
perfect, and is that of a rather aged adult, judging by the worn 
condition of the teeth, of which the whole series on both sides are 
preserved in siti. The fossil is not only interesting as being the 
finest specimen of the species yet recorded as found in England, 
but also as affording conclusive evidence of its having been con- 
temporaneous with Llephas primigenius. This specimen will pro- 
bably enable the paleontologist to determine with certainty the 
species of Rhinoceros to which the limb and trunk bones belong, 
that are found scattered and intermixed with thosé of the Mammoth, 
Ox, Horse, &c. in the Ilford beds, and which are of much more 
slender proportions than those of Rhinoceros tichorhinus. 
The specimen forms part of the fine collection of Mammalian re- 
mains from the above locality belonging to Antonio Brady, Esq., 
F.G.S., of Maryland Point, Stratford, who has also a lower jaw of 
probably the same species, but found in another Brickfield just 
through Ilford, on the Romford Road.—W. D. 
More Discovertes oF Fossit REMAINS OF THE ELEPHANT OF 
Marta.*—The explorations by Dr. Adams among the cave-deposits 
and alluvial soils of this island have been lately crowned with signal 
success. It will be remembered that Captain Spratt, the indefati- 
gable and learned hydrographer of the Mediterranean, was the 
first to bring to light the remains of the unique and remarkable 
Fossil Elephant of Malta (Elephas Melitensis), by his explorations 
in the Zebbug Cave, in 1859. Since that time, Dr. Adams has been 
unremitting in his exertions to discover more remains of this extinct 
species, and has been fortunate enough to find them in many new 
Jocalities in Malta. He has just met with its teeth in great quan- 
tities, in a cavern near Crendi. In another gap, evidently at one 
%* See Gnorocican Magazine, No. III. p. 140. 
