QUAETERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



April 5, 1854. 

 , Robert Etheridge, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On some Mammaliferous Deposits in the Valley of the 

 Nene, near Peterborough. By Joshua Trimmer, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



In the collection of the Marchioness of Huntly there are bones of 

 the Elephant and other large mammals, which have been obtained 

 from two gravel-pits near Orton Hall. Some of them have been sub- 

 mitted, I believe, to the inspection of Professor Owen ; and through 

 the kindness of the Marchioness I am enabled to exhibit the whole 

 of them * to the Society. 



While making, in company with Mr. Bailey Denton, a rapid ex- 

 amination of the geology of the Orton estate in its agricultural rela- 

 tions, I had lately an opportunity of seeing these deposits, which 

 present some interesting features bearing on my communication, 

 published in a late number of the Journal f, " On the Soils which 

 cover the Chalk of Kent." 



* The collection comprises remains of ElepJias meridionalis?, Bos primigenius, 

 and Cervus elaphus. f No. 36. vol. ix. p. 286. 



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