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me. With respect to the animal-re- 

 mains discovered in the high ter- 

 race, it was found that the surface- 

 soil contained so many hones of re- 

 cent animals which dropped down 

 into the cuttings, that it was diffi- 

 cult to distinguish them from any 

 that might be found in the gravel. 

 The whole were therefore submitted 

 to Mr. Busk, who has kindly under- 

 taken to identify them, and whose 

 report upon them will be read to the 

 Meeting. (See p. 465.) The position 

 of one tooth of Elephas primigenius 

 may, however, I think, be regarded 

 as fixed ; it was found in the gravel, 

 near Section H, in Lome Terrace, 

 at a dej)th of 7 feet. I did not see 

 it taken out of the gravel ; but it was 

 handed to me shortly after it was 

 discovered ; and I have no reason to 

 suppose, nor do I think there is any 

 likelihood of its having been brought 

 to this place from any other deposit 

 of gravel. The nearest gravel-pit 

 then being worked was a mile and 

 a half distant ; the bones of that 

 gravel-pit were being collected for 

 me by other workmen at the time ; 

 and there could be no object in 

 transferring this bone from one pit 

 to another when they knew that 

 they would receive the same re- 

 muneration, from whichever pit it 

 came. This, however, to the best 

 of my belief, is the first tooth of 

 Elephas primigenius which has been 

 found in the high-terrace gravel. 

 The mid terrace is prolific in ani- 

 mal-remains, as has been already 

 shown by the researches of Professor 

 Morris. 



I now turn to the Mid-terrace 

 gravel. About a mile and a half 

 south of the Church field at Acton, 

 in a place called Brown's Orchard, 

 between Acton Green and the Brent- 

 ford Road, some excavations were 

 being made to obtain gravel. The 

 position of this spot, with reference 



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