46 Correspondence. 
After dinner, Mr. G. Tate, F.G.S., read a very interesting paper on 
the subject of the ‘kaims,’ in which he attributed their formation to 
the action of water at a remote period.—Alnwick Mercury, June 1. 
Tue Proceedings of the Correswotp Natura.ists’ FIELD-CLUB 
for 1863 contains the first part of a monograph On the Ammonites of 
the Lower Lias, by Thomas Wright, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.G.S. An 
account is here given of the different zones into which the Liassic 
rocks are now divided; also of the classifications of the Ammonites, 
after Sowerby, Von Buch, and D’Orbigny.* 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
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DISCOVERY OF ELEPHANT REMAINS NEAR DUDLEY. 
To the Editors of the GkoLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
THE men who are engaged in digging clay for bricks in the pit 
belonging to a brickyard near Oldbury, came lately upon ‘a lot of 
things like great stone bones, like as though a great big animal had 
been buried there.’ The bones were in the marl under the soft clay, 
perhaps ten or twelve feet below the surface. One piece was de- 
scribed as being seven or eight feet long, a little curved, and as thick 
as one’s arm. It was shown to a timber merchant, who pronounced 
it a piece of a tree, from the circular rings of growth. The brick- 
maker, however, was quite sure it was not any tree that had grown 
there within the last five-and-forty years ; he had tried one piece in 
the fire, and found it wouldn’t burn. I succeeded in obtaining a 
portion of tusk, twenty-four inches long and thirteen inches round, 
and curving about three inches. It shows the alveolus at both ends,f 
and in drying contracts a good deal, separating into concentric layers 
of growth. I have resided more than forty years at Dudley, but 
never heard of fossil elephant bones being found in this part of the 
country before. JOHN GRAY. 
Hagley, June 6, 1864. 
To the Editor of the GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
Sir,—Allow me to suggest to the various scientific Societies and 
Field-clubs holding Field-meetings, the advisability of announcing 
their arrangements in the GroLocicaL Macazine. By this means 
scientific men will be informed of their gatherings, and may often 
find it convenient to join any particular Society; and, moreover, 
there will not be so great a probability of the Meetings of one Club 
clashing with those of another. As things are now, we not un- 
frequently have two or three meetings of Midland Clubs in the 
same week.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JNO. JONES, 
June 22, 1864. Sec. Dudley Geological Society. 
* A fuller notice will be given of the papers contained in this and other Reports 
in a future number.—Eprr. 
{~ The alveolus of an entire tusk of E. primigenius in the British Museum 
(dredged off Palling on the Norfolk coast) is 23 inches deep.—Eprr. 
