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Next the geological aspect of the question is considered and the relation 

 of the deposit which yielded the teeth to those of the Httoral in gênerai is 

 set out together with the geological history of the more récent deposits of 

 the coast. 



The Palaeontological évidence is then gone into and comparisons are drawn 

 between the fossils and the corresponding teeth of E. caballus and of a new 

 species E. leploslylus recently founded by Hikoschichiro Matsumoto in Japan. 



A comparative table of the more important characteristics of thèse three 

 sets of teeth is set out and the conclusion drawn is that the fossil horse's 

 teeth from Ceylon (Wellawatta near Colombo) are to be taken as évidence of 

 the existence of indigenous Equidse in Ceylon in prehistoric days, and it is 

 held that the individual proclaimed by the teeth exhibits the characters 

 of a group of Pleistocene horses while a number of features serve to distin- 

 guish it from E. caballus. The author hésitâtes to introduce another spécifie 

 name, however, although he tentatively suggest one in the title of his paper. 



Author' s abslracL 



Wayland, E. J., Further notes on the Wellawatta Horse. Spolia 

 Zeylanica, vol. XI. Part 40 — 1918 — pp. 81-83. 



A note dealing with Matsumoto's views on the fossil teeth dealt with in 

 the paper above. The teeth are compared with those of E. onager and a few 

 other species. The conclusion arrived at is that while closely allied to 

 E. onager the fossil horse of Wellawatta is in ail probability co-specific with 

 an unnamed species described by Lyddekker from the Karnul cave near 

 Madras, and that the name Equus {Asinus) Zeylanicus Wayland, ? cf. onager 

 BissoN, may be, tentatively at least, applied to both a bibliography of India 

 fossil horses is appended. 



Author' s abstracl. 



Depéret, Ch., Sur les Mammifères fossiles des brèches osseuses du 

 Château de Nice. C. R. somm. S'. G. F. — 1923 — nos i.o. Paris. 



Cette brèche était signalée déjà par Cuvier ; M. Depéret a eu communi- 

 cation, par M. Caziot, des espèces suivantes : Equus caballus Lin., Rhino- 

 céros aff. elruscus Falc, Cervus Cazioti, Lagomys {Prolagus) Corsicanus 

 Cuvier, Ursus arctos Lin. ; cette faune plaide en faveur de la séparation 

 tardive de la Corse et de la Sardaigne, d'avec le Continent. La présence 

 d'espèces de type ancien date des brèches de la fin du Pliocène ou plutôt de 

 l'extrême début du Quaternaire. 



M. Cossmann. 



Raw, Frank, On a Mammouth Molar from North Woodchester, near 

 Stroud. Geol. Mag., vol. LVIII, pp. 502-5, 1 pi. Londres, 1921. 



Dent trouvée, en 1916, par M. W. Harrison, dans un gravier plein de débris 

 Oolithiques et Liassiques ; elle mesure plus de 20 cm. de longueur, sur 9 cm. 

 de largeur, ce doit être une dernière molaire inférieure de droite d'Elephas 

 primigenius. 



M. Cossmann, 



