460 Notices of Memoirs— Diamond-Mining, South Africa. 
humerus presented by Miss Gurney to the Norwich Museum from 
the Elephant-bed at Bacton. This Mundesley specimen is calculated 
by Dr. Falconer to have belonged to an animal that stood 17 feet, 
measured from the foot to the dorsal-vertebral spine. It is remark- 
able that the three several specimens, the ramus, the humerus and 
the os inomenatum, agreeing together in point of form, should have 
been derived from the same bed. What is still more extraordinary, 
there are in Mr. Randall Johnson’s grand collection, two bones, .a 
femur and a radius, taken from precisely the same spot, which 
exhibit the like peculiarity of structure, namely, excess of dimen- 
sions in comparison with substance. 
Of the femur Professor A. Leith Adams writes, Pal. Soc. Mon. 
‘Fossil Elephants,’ part iv. p. 222: “As compared with any femur 
at all referable to European extinct elephants, the specimen in the 
possession of Mr. Randall Johnson, late of Palling, far outstrips the 
largest in dimensions. It was discovered at Mundesley in the 
Forest-bed in conjunction with the humerus No. 200 of the Gunn 
collection (pl. xvi. fig. 2) and the huge radius also referred to page 
217. Conjointly they represent a stupendous Elephant only second 
to the Dinotherium in size.” 
Thus it appears that these five specimens, which were found in 
the same bed, near the same place, remarkably correspond ; so much 
so that it was the conviction of Mr. Johnson that they not only 
belonged to the same species of Elephant, but to the same individual. 
In this I should concur, if I had not found more than the component 
parts of one such Elephant. However, I look forward with pleasure 
to the time when Mr. Johnson’s collection will, as he has promised, 
be placed in the Norwich Museum, and then his Elephantine bones 
will be laid by the side of mine, making together one unrivalled 
individual. 
I trust I have said enough to prove that no more than a type of 
E. primigenius is to be seen in the several collections mentioned, of 
the preglacial period; and that intermediate forms of the Elephant 
do intervene between the species recognized by Dr. Falconer and 
others. 
NOt GreS) (Oss) (Aan @ tee Se 
J.—Diamonp Mryine at Kimperzey, Sourn AFRICA. 
| ate the Report of “The Central Diamond-mining Company 
(Kimberley Mine),” made at the third annual meeting, on the 
28th May, 1885, at Kimberley, South Africa, we learn that the 
diamantiferous rock, known as “the blue,” has been pierced for 
“about 530 feet at the south side of the mine,” without any sign of 
its being penetrated, and with “eminently satisfactory” results as 
far as the Company is concerned. It is also stated that “about 250 
feet down the walls of the reef! consisted of igneous rock,” which 
' The term “ reef”’ is applied to any of the rocks, stratified or otherwise, bounding 
or interfering with the diamond-bearing magnesian breccia, which is called ‘‘ the 
Yellow”’ at the top and “the Blue” below some 50 or 60 feet depth. 
