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associated with the remains of man, of a date anterior to the Saxon 

 invasion. It was kept in great herds during the Eoman occupation, 

 and supplied the Legionaries with beef. On the Continent, as in 

 Britain, it is found around the dwellings and in the tombs of the 

 Bronze and Stone folk. Nowhere is there evidence of its having a 

 higher antiquity than the Neolithic age of Sir John Lubbock. It 

 disappeared along with its Keltic masters before the Saxon invaders 

 from the more fertile portions of Britain, and took refuge in the 

 Highlands of Scotland and Wales, where it still survives in the 

 smaller domestic races. In no case has it been found in association 

 with Saxon remains. The inferences to be drawn about it are, first, 

 that it has not yet been proved to have existed before the Pre-historic 

 age ; and second, that it is the ancestor of the small Highland and 

 Welsh breeds. It is essentially the animal with which the Archaeo- 

 logists have to deal, and its only claim for insertion in Geological 

 catalogues is the fact of its occurrence in the most modem of all the 

 stratified deposits. 



2. " On the Geology of the Upper Part of the Valley of the 

 Teign, Devonshire." By G. Wareing Ormerod, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



The district noticed in this paper lies to the north of Bovey Tracey. 

 The author describes the courses of the Teign and its feeders, and 

 the strata traversed by those streams, namely, Granite and Carbon- 

 iferous Limestone. Gravels are occasionally found, which the author 

 regarded as having been deposited before the re-excavation of the 

 vaUey, and he showed that these had been transported by a current 

 from north-west to south-east. From the absence of these gravels 

 in the gorge of the Carboniferous rocks between Hunts Tor, near 

 Chagford, and Clifford Bridge, he considered that that vaUey had 

 been opened since the time when the boulders and gravels were 

 deposited, and then showed that the stream from the valley of the 

 Teign, prior to the opening of that valley, would have passed by 

 Moreton Hampstead to Bovey Tracey. The paper contained notices 

 of the Minerals found in the district, and of the Granite veins in the 

 Carboniferous rocks. 



3. " Notes on the geological features of Mauritius." By George 

 Clark, Esq., Communicated by the Assistant- Secretary. 



Mr. Clark describes the occurrence of a calcareous formation of at 

 least 30 feet in thickness, with a dip of about 30°, composing many 

 of the islets, supported by the coral reefs of the Mauritius, which 

 have been generally regarded as forming an integral part of the 

 islets, but which the author considered to be of greater antiquity. 

 A soft sandstone was stated to cover in many places the calcareous 

 rock, and to contain imbedded remains of roots, and bases of trunks 

 of trees. 



The following specimens were exhibited by C. Carter Blake, Esq., 

 F.G.S. : — Horn-cores of Oxen (Bos trochoceros, B. primigenius, and 

 B. frontosus) from a Kjokenmodding at London Wall, found by 

 Colonel Lane Fox, F.S.A. 



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