THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE V. VOL. 



No. IL— FEBRUARY, 1906. 



OS,IC3-II5r.A.Xj J^ISTICLES. 



I. — Mastodon in the Pleistocene of South Africa. 

 By Professor Dr. Eichakd Beck, Freiberg. 



LAST Summer, when I travelled in South Africa with the British 

 Association, I examined the diamantiferous gravels on the Vaal 

 River near Kiraberley. During this visit Mr. Krumbelt, apothecary 

 in Barkly West, had the kindness to give me three fossil teeth 

 which he had found in the local gravels. Nos. 1 and 2 were 

 obtained from the so-called breakwater workings of the river-side, 

 while No. 3 was found in the Waldeck Plant in the higher terrace 

 of gravels at an elevation of 60 to 80 feet. The state of preservation 

 of all these teeth is that of real fossil remains. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger was kind enough to compare the teeth 

 numbered 1 and 2 with recent specimens in the British Museum, 

 and communicated to me his determinations as follows : — 



No. 1 is a molar of JEqims, perhaps of a Zebroid species, as 

 inferred from the locality. 



No. 2 is a lower canine of a young Hippopotamus. 



Tooth No. 3 is of much more interest, for, according to an 

 examination kindly made by my friend Dr. Johannes Felix, 

 Professor of Palaeontology in Leipzic, it is a fragmentary molar 

 of Mastodon (subdivision Bunolophodon) . A determination of the 

 species is impossible because the fragment is not sufficiently com- 

 plete ; but, as shown by the accompanying photograph of the fossil 

 (Fig. 1), there can be no doubt as to its generic relationship. 



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