140 Correspondence. 
to a geologist, they being usually covered up by sand. I also saw, 
in the Chichester Museum, a rolled elephant’s tooth, found some- 
where near Selsey, which I take to belong to E. meridionalis. I 
believe the common Elephant of these deposits to be F. antiquus. 
This association of species agrees with that in the Forest-bed at 
Cromer. I dare say you know that there is a great part of a very 
fine individual of £. antiquus in the Chichester Museum.—Y ours, &c., 
O. FisHER. 
Mautese Bone-caves. Extract from Letter, dated August 4, 1864, 
from Dr. A. Lerra Apams, Surg. H.M.S. 22nd Reg., F.G.S., &c. 
EXT winter I mean to work especially at the Elephas Meli- 
tensis, and draw up a concise account of the deposits in 
which the remains have been found, together with a complete sum- 
mary of all the specimens of the animal yet discovered. I have in 
my own possession a goodly collection already, mostly brought to- 
gether by dint of very hard work, comprising some eight or nine 
specimens of teeth of different individuals; an upper jaw with teeth 
in place; portion of a tusk, 8 inches long by 6} in greatest circum- 
ference, composed of beautiful ivory; vertebrae; a scapula; frag- 
ments of long bones, &e. No doubt these islands (Malta and Gozo) 
have been re-elevated. We find all their large Mammalia, such as 
the Hippopotamus, &c., either in breccias, in fissures, or in stony 
soils at low levels in hollows and depressions, where, from the sub- 
angular fragments (many scored deeply, and a few well-rounded and 
even polished, are distributed throughout the red earth in gaps and 
hollows, the bigger stones being at the bottom), it is clear that in all 
probability they had been washed by the sea downwards as the land 
was rising or sinking. I look to the situations of the alluvial gravels 
as significant; more especially as the denudation of the soil is com- 
plete everywhere on slopes; and, excepting in hollows and sheltered 
nooks, there is certainly no alluvial deposit in the island (I mean 
én siétt: man has carried it to any height). 
‘No doubt our Elephant is distinct; my collection shows that; as 
I have teeth of all ages almost. They are much fractured, however, 
on have evidently been knocked about a good deal. One skeleton 
vas found én sit%; that is, so far so that I collected parts from the 
Elephant-bed. 
Red Caleareous 
Sandstone. 
== = Sea, level. 
tall bones to the skull on a cutting along the face of a bank about 
three yards in length. ‘The abundant remains of the animal in one 
Holle of the above shape (fig. 1), in the “ Calcareous Sandstone ” are 
