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PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



V 



and Pantanelli 1 as of Pliocene age. If. from these facts, such 

 widely-distant beds can he recognized as contemporaneous, then 

 the suggestion may he made that the northern half of British East 

 Africa was probably an extensive freshwater region during Pliocene 

 times, limited on the north by Lake Assal, on the east by Suddidima, 

 on the south by Archer's Post and the Mount Kenya plateau, and 

 on the west by Lakes Rudolf, Stefanie, and Marguerite. 



Assistance in the determination of these shells had been kindly 

 rendered by Mr. E. A. Smith, I.S.O. 



December 1st, 1915. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Albert Charles Chibnall, B.A., Cedar House, Oris wick Mall, W. ; 

 John Henri Davies, Lecturer in Mining, Glamorgan County Council, 

 Cors Street, Cwmgors, Gwauncaegurwen (Glamorgan) ; Walter 

 Eite, B.Sc.. 7 Dora Road, Small Heath, Birmingham ; Edward 

 Lloyd Jones, Plasisa, Rhosymedre, Ruabon ; George Pickering, 

 Glencoe, Harrogate Hill, Darlington ; Frederick George Rappoport, 

 25 The Vale. Golders Green, N.W.; Percy Lucock Robinson. B.Sc, 

 Demonstrator in Geology in the Armstrong College (Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne), 60 Earl's Dene, Low Eell, Gateshead ; William Alfred 

 Richardson, B.Sc, Lecturer in Civil Engineering, University College, 

 Nottingham ; and Henry Marshall Taylor, Principal of Fouriesburg 

 School, Fouriesburg (Orange Free State), were elected Fellows of 

 the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President exhibited lantern-slides lent by Prof. Gordon 

 Elliot Smith to illustrate the fossil human skull found at 

 Talgai, Darling Downs (Queensland), in 1914. The specimen 

 was brought to the notice of the British Association in Sydney by 

 Prof. T. W. Edgeworth David, and would shortly be described 

 by him and Prof. Arthur Smith. It was obtained from a river- 

 deposit in which remains of Diprotodon and other extinct 

 marsupials had already been discovered, and there could be no 

 doubt that it belonged to the Pleistocene fauna. It therefore 

 explained the occurrence of the Dingo with the extinct marsupials. 

 The skull is typically human and of the primitive Australian 

 type, but differs from all such skulls hitherto found in possessing 

 relatively-large canine teeth, which interlock like those of an ape. 

 The upper canine shows a large facet worn to its base by the 

 lower premolar. The discovery of the Talgai skull was, therefore, 



1 Atti Soc. Tosc. Sci. Nat. Proc.-verb. vol. v (1887) pp. 204-206, & vol. vi 

 (1888) p. 169. 



