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tunity, which the approaching Anniversary of the Geological Society 
affords me, of expressing fully my deep sense of the inestimable 
value of your labours. 
IT have the honour to be, &c. &c., 
R. I. Murcutson, 
Pres. Geol. Soc. London. . 
January 5, 1842.—Charles Tremenheere, Esq., of the Bombay 
Engineers; William Kennett Loftus, Esq., of Caius College, Cam- 
bridge; and John Scandrett Harford, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., of Blaize 
Castle, near Bristol, were elected Fellows of this Society. 
** A Notice on the Fossil Bones found on the surface of a raised 
Beach at the Hoe near Plymouth,” by Edward Moore, M.D., F.L.8., 
was first read. 
At the Meeting of the British Association at Plymouth, Dr. 
Moore read a paper on the same subject as that which forms part of 
the present communication*. In this notice he first alludes to the 
discovery of the beach by the Rev. R. Hennah in 18277, and to 
Mr. De la Beche’s account of numerous anciently raised beaches in 
Devon and Cornwall{; he then briefly describes the characters of 
the beach, its position in a hollow in the limestone rock, 100 feet 
wide, 70 feet deep, and, at its base, 35 feet above the present high 
water mark. He also notices a projecting ledge of limestone stretching 
several hundred feet southward from this spot, and which sustained a 
mass of sand, with rolled pebbles and blocks, some of them two or 
three feet in circumference, and forming a hill twenty to twenty-five 
feet high, containing patches of loose sand with fragments of Patella 
and Buccinum. It was, says the author, easily traced by several 
patches along the rocks, and proved, by its structure and contents, 
to be a continuation of the same beach. Dr. Moore likewise briefly 
describes another deposit 100 yards westward of the beach, and at a 
greater elevation, being 88 feet above high water, 50 feet in extent, 
and-10 in thickness, covered irregularly by soil. 
The animal remains more particularly enumerated by Dr. Moore 
consist of a molar and part of the jaw of a young elephant; a femur 
of a rhinoceros; maxillary bones of a bear, with the malar and pala- 
tine processes, and two teeth in each; an entire right lower ramus 
with teeth and tusks, the latter much worn; four separate tusks ; 
several fragments of long bones; fragments of jaws of the horse con- 
taining teeth, numerous loose teeth, portions of long bones, and two 
caudal vertebree; likewise portions of a deer’s jaw containing teeth. 
The quantity of the bones which has been found is stated to be equal 
to several bushels. The vertebrae of a whale, much rounded, were 
also discovered, with undeterminable portions of ribs. The animals 
* Atheneum, No. 721, and the volume of Reports of the British Asso- 
ciation for 1841, Trans. of the Sections, p, 62 (published 1842). 
+ Seealso “ A Succinct Account of the Lime Rocks of Plymouth,” by the 
Rev. R. Hennah, 1822, p. 58. 
+ Manual of Geology, 3rd Edition, p. 173, 1833; also Report on the 
Geology of Cornwall and Devon, p. 423, 1859. 
