ELEPHAS MERIDIONALIS AT DEWLISH, DORSET. 821 



rence, in a district iu which, so far as 1 am aware, no glacial phe- 

 nomena have been certified, more interesting. Mr. Mansel-Pleydell 

 and mj^self have thought it therefore worth while to bring this notice 

 before the Society. 



Polished flints have been already mentioned as being found among 

 the gravel. Most of these are polished only upon a portion of their 

 surface. Prof. Prestwich and myself in the year 1873 found a 

 deposit of gravel in Portland which, in my opinion, overlay a 

 swallow-hole, where the pebbles were similarly polished, and formed 

 almost a pudding-stone, the interstices being occupied by a cement 

 of calcite. In that instance it appeared to me that the polishing was 

 due to the long-continued percolation of water, carrying fine silt 

 with it, and I suspect that a similar process has been at work at 

 Dewlish since the deposit was laid high and dry, the unpolished 

 portions of the flints being where they were held fast, and the 

 polished surfaces the portions past which silty water has percolated. 



The discovery of the molar in 1853 by Mr. Kent led Mr. Mansel- 

 Pleydell to resume the search, and he soon found a left humerus, 

 four feet long. This was left protected by a covering of sacks and 

 hurdles, but a rough party from a neighbouring village visited it 

 on the next day, which was a Sunday, and demolished it. Since my 

 visit he has continued his excavations, and, including the humerus, 

 the following bones have been found* : — 



1. A left humerus 4 feet long. 



2. A radius 2 feet long. 



3. An ulna, length 2 feet 2 inches. 



4. An entire scapula with ridge and recurved process. 



5. The anterior border and fossa of a scapula 3 feet 6 inches long, 

 and 9 inches from the border to the ridge and spine. 



6. The left side of a pelvis, ischium missing ; length of ilium 

 a outer border 3 feet 10 inches. 



7. An ischium (?) detached ; length (transverse) 2 feet 2 inches, 

 breadth at broadest end 1 foot 1 inch, at most constricted part 8| 

 inches. 



8. A femur, length 2 feet 3 inches. 



9. A tibia, length 1 foot 10 inches. 



10. The massive left alveolus of an upper jaw, the cavity of which 

 corresponded with a magnificent tusk which lay near it. The orifice 

 for the insertion of the latter was cylindrical and 6 inches in dia- 

 meter ; the other extremity was somewhat flattened, expanding into 

 a thin, wing-like plate on one side. Dr. Falconer considered the 

 angle which this part makes with the frontal plane to afford a 

 mark of distinction between E. meridionalis and E.primigenius, but 

 unfortunately, owing to the detachment of the two, this angle 

 could not be observed. The length of the bone was 3 feet 9 inches. 



11. A tusk 6 feet 2 inches long, and 6 inches in diameter at its 

 base. The point, for about 18 inches, rested perpendicularly upon a 

 bed of waterworn flints, mingled with fine quartz-sand. By a bold 



* These descriptions are by Mr. Mansel-Pleydell. 



