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premolars are in place and are well worn, the three molars being 

 as nearly as possible equal in size. The limb-bones indicate an 

 individual about 5 feet 1 inch in height. 



These remains are compared with the fossil human relics which 

 have been found in Britain and on the Continent of Europe, as well 

 as with the dolichocephalic races now living, and their relations to 

 the ' Spy,' ' River-bed,' ' Long-barrow,' ' Eskimo,' and other types 

 are pointed out. 



The gravels, in which these human bones were found, overlie the 

 Chalk at a height of about 90 feet above the Thames, and are about 

 10 feet thick. They form part of the high-terrace gravels extending 

 from Dartford Heath to Northfleet, and their Palaeolithic age is 

 shown by the numerous implements which have been found in them, 

 as well as by the mammalian remains which have been met with 

 in similar beds near by, although not at Gralley Hill. The human 

 bones were seen in situ by Mr. R. Elliott and Mr. Matthev/ Heys, 

 both of whom, in letters, speak positively as to the undisturbed 

 condition of the 8 feet of gravel which overlay the bones when 

 discovered. 



2. " Geological Notes of a Journey round the Coast of Norway 

 and into Northern Russia." By G. S. Boulger, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



The author accompanied the Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expe- 

 dition as far as Archangel, and returned by way of the River Dvina. 

 His observations relate mainly to four points : the origin of the 

 foliation of the Norwegian gneiss ; the question of raised beaches 

 on the north-western coast of Norway; the boulders and boulder- 

 formation of Northern Russia; and the Trias of the Dvina valley. 



Between Christiansund and Tromso the author was struck with 

 the wide-sweeping folds of the foliation-planes of the gneissose 

 rocks, which appeared to him iiiore readily explicable on a theory 

 of dynamo-metamorphism of rocks originally in part igneous, than 

 by any process of diagenesis. He notes that the terraces observed in 

 the transverse fjords would be perfectly explained by the formation 

 of ice-dammed lakes, though the terraces of the Gulf of Onega 

 seemed less dubious raised beaches than those of the north-west of 

 Norway. He confirms the views of previous writers that many 

 of the boulders of the boulder-formation of Northern Russia are of 

 Scandinavian origin. The beds on the Dvina consist of sands and 

 loams, often coloured red, with bands of alabaster and anhydrite. 

 The strata are horizontal or inclined at a low angle. North of 

 Ustyug Veliki the strata are marked as Permian on the Russian 

 maps, and those to the south as Trias, but the author saw no 

 perceptible break in the succession. 



3. " On some Foraminifera of Rliatic Age, from Wedmore in 

 Somerset." By Frederick Chapman, Esq., F.R.M.S. (Communi- 

 cated by Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., F.G.S.) 



■ (1) The author has examined six examples of Clays and limestones 

 from different horizons ; these were collected by Mr. W. A. Sanford, 

 F.G.S., from a quarry south-east of the village of Wedmore, which 

 bas yielded Megalosaurian remains. The rocks in this quarry are 



