Reports and Proceedings — Geological Society of London. 281 



P. 274, fig. 2. NudeoUtes dimidiatus, Phil., a well-known Corallian 

 •species, is enumerated amongst the fossils characteristic of the Chalk. 



P. 264. Waterhouse-Hawkins' incorrect restoration of Megalo- 

 sntinis might with advantage be replaced by Marsh's figure of 

 Ceratosaurus, which was most probably identical with our Jurassic 

 Dinosaur, and was no doubt (judging by its skeleton) bipedal, having 

 very small fore-limbs, only of use in seizing its prey (see Geol. Mag., 

 1896, p. 392, Fig. 3). 



Geological Society of London. 



April 13th, 1904.— J. E. Marr, Sc.D., F.R.S., President, in the 

 Chair. The following communications were read : — 



1. "The Discovery of Human Remains under the Stalagmite 

 Floor of Gough's Cavern, near Cheddar." By Henry Nathaniel 

 Davies, Esq., F.G.S. 



Gough's Cavern opens at the base of the cliffs on the south side 

 of Cheddar Gorge. Various human and animal remains have been 

 discovered at different times in the clearing out of parts of the 

 main cavern. The principal deposits are a stalagmite-like travertine 

 •overlying cave-earth, and the latter at one place encloses a tabular 

 limestone block surrounded with flint chips. During draining 

 operations it was necessary to excavate part of a fissure running 

 northwards out of the vestibule of the cavern, when a human 

 skeleton was found, associated with flakes, scrapers, and borers of 

 flint, embedded in cave-earth, which overlay a lower bed of 

 stalagmite and was overlain by a second bed five inches thick. The 

 skeleton was nearer the top than the bottom of the deposit, and the 

 remains excavated comprise the skull, the bones of an arm, a leg, 

 and part of the pelvic girdle. The other bones were allowed to 

 remain in situ and may now be seen. The position of the skeleton 

 was that which would have been assumed by a drowned man. 

 Interment is out of the question because of the narrow and ship- 

 shape of the fissure, which was choked up with undisturbed debris 

 and calcareous deposits. The stature of the man was 5 feet 5 inches ; 

 he was of muscular build, with prognathous jaws, a straight thigh, 

 and a thick dolichocephalic skull. The animal remains found in 

 the cave-earth of other parts of the Cavern, and held by the author 

 to be contemporaneous with that in the fissure, are those of mid 

 and late Pleistocene age ; and this evidence, together with that from 

 the position of the skeleton, the shape of the cranium, and the form 

 and workmanship of the flakes, j)oints to a period towards the close 

 of the Palseolithic or the opening of the Neolithic age. 



2. " History of Volcanic Action in the Phlegrsean Fields." By 

 Professor Giuseppe De Lorenzo, of the Eoyal University of Naples. 

 (Communicated by Sir Archibald Geikie, Sc.D., Sec.E.S., V.P.G.S.) 



In an introductory section the author sketches the general 

 .geological structure of the district around Naples, and shows the 



