I Chinese caveru ; 4. Rhinoceros Sinensis Ow., probably from 



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4. On Fossil Bemains of Mammals found i?i China, by Prof. 

 Owen, (Q. J. GeoL Soc, for Aug., 1870).— Prof. Owen describes 

 in this paper the following species : 1. Steyodon Sinensis Ow., 

 from a tooth obtained " from marly beds in the vicinity of Shant^hai, 

 probably Tertiary," (belonging to the group of Elephants called 

 "transitional forms" by Owen in his Odontography, which Fal- 

 coner defined and named Stegodon) ; 2. -S. orientalis Ow., said to 

 be "from a cave near the city of CIning-tung-foo, Province of Szo- 

 chuen," and having a more recent aspect than the tooth of S. Si- 



, from specimens supposed 

 u ; 4. Jinmoceros Sinensis Ow., probably 

 Tapii'us Sinensis Ow., id. ; 6. (Jhalicothe 

 Sinensis Ow., id. The specimens, excepting that of the S. Sim 

 were obtained by Mr. SAvinhoe from anothocaries in China: 

 Prof. Owen observed that 

 had thus come into his hands, he had seh 



agreeing in chemical and other characters, and which -'might 

 justly be inferred to be of the same age, and to be derived from 

 the cave mentioned by Mr. Swinhoe." 



5. Diamonds of South 4/WY'«.— According to Dr. John Shaw, 



quartzite, micaceous sandstones, and clay schists, witli trap or 

 basalt and trap conglomerate. The diamonds ;ire lound in allnvial 

 gravel, and this gravel contains pebbles of (juarlzite, granite, day- 

 slate, garnet, tourmaline, spinel, agate, iron j)yrites, the wliole 

 waterworn and polished, and imbedded, at KlipdriCt, in a brownish 

 fatty clay. Diamonds have been found two hours distance from 

 Potchefstroom, and all down the Vaal to its junction with the 

 Orange river, and thence to ten hours distance below Hope Town, • 

 a range of at least 500 miles. Dr. Shaw is of the opinion that 

 the diamonds have come '' from some rock which may now have 

 vanished, but which existed formerly through the whole region." 

 The old diggers prefer for their washings the summits of the 

 Kopjes, where the gravel is of wide extent and is far above the 

 of the river. These summits are all basalt. In the 

 o ffravel is onen to view, it being covered with sand, 

 udation ;" and thus far the 

 or of carrying off the surface 

 sand for work below. " The present diamond digging of South 

 Africa is therefore only trifling in comparison to what it should 

 and will ultimately be." 



6. PaUicatioas of the Geological Survey of India, under the 

 direction of Thomas Oldham, LL.D.— Published by order of His 

 Excellency, the Governor General of India, in Council.— These 

 publications now include six volumes of Memoirs in large octavo ; 

 a thick quarto volume with many plates, under the general title 

 Palaiontologica Indiea, on the Cretaceous Gasteropoda, l>y I . Stol- 

 icka; another, on the Cretaceous Cephalopoda, by H. F. Blanford 

 and P. Stolicka ; and parts of two others, on the Fossil Flora of 

 ttie Rajmahal Hills, Bencral, by T. Oldham and John Morris, and 

 on the Vertebrate FossUs from the Panchet Rocks, Bengal, by 



