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opening): and nearly the entire face, including the upper jaw, with most 
of the much and curiously-worn teeth. As it is precisely these parts 
that are hing in the Neanderthal calvarium, of which the present is, 
ae a of 1814 had crept into a sealed fissure in the Rock of 
ib 
will not now enter into any further particulars concerning it, more oe 
which:are leo contained those of = “stn one, if not of two, wholl — 
tinct species of Rhinoceros, and of several other: animals which are extinct, 
so far as Europe is concerned.— The Reader, July 2 
18, On the Rhetic Beds and White Lias of Western and Central 
Somerset, and on the Prabenedeey of a new Fossil Mammal in the gray 
Marlstones beneath the Bone-bed; by Mr. W. Born Dawxtns.—After 
describing the sections in the district, and showing the paleontologica: 
relations of the White Lias to the Avicula contorta series and the zone 
of Ammonites planorbis, the author enunciated the following conclusions + 
Q). That the true position of the White Lias is immediately above the 
contorta zone of Dr. Wright, oe at the base of the Lower Lias 
‘shale; (2) that it is entirely distinct from the Rhaetic beds, lithologically 
and: paleontologically ; and (3) from the discovery of Rhietic fossils in 
the Gray Marls below the — that the latter belong to the Rbetie 
Rests sNa-then:y deseri oe ee aa malian 
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