824 ELEPHAS MERIDIOXALIS AT DEWLISH, DOESET. 



Discrssiois'. 



The Peesident would like to have a further explanation of the 

 polished pebbles referred to. The peculiar manner in which the 

 bones occurred was very interesting ; was there any possibility of 

 the deposit being an eroded pipe ? 



The Author said that the pipe-theory had at first occurred to 

 him ; however, the beds where the fossils were obtained are distinctly 

 water-deposited 



Mr. Ma]s"sel-Pleyi>ell agreed that the beds were stratified. He 

 gave a description of them. The lower beds consisted of one contain- 

 ing broken chalk and flints, between two others half an inch thick, 

 ferruginous, and composed exclusively of thin flints, like shells ; then 

 came the bone-bed of theflnest sand, associated with large and small 

 flints more or less pohshed, the smaller at the top. i'ragments of 

 ivory, owing to their being lighter, occurred immediately above, and 

 there was some more broken chalk and clay — the point of a tusk 

 just reached this clay. He then enumerated the bones found, which 

 he thought might belong to two species, one being much larger 

 than the other. The teeth shown by Mr. Fisher were those of 

 E. meridioncdis. 



Mr. jN'EWTOJf had little doubt that some, at least, of these teeth 

 belonged to E. meridioncdis, and those which were not like E. meri- 

 dioncdis resembled very closely certain other Forest-bed forms. 

 The question of age, too, was a matter of importance. Unfortu- 

 nately nothing was known of the associated fauna ; but it seemed 

 more likely that these beds would prove to be of about the age of 

 the Cromer Forest-bed, than that E. meridioncdis should be found 

 passing up into Pleistocene deposits. 



The AuTHOE asked if the extremely steep escarpment might not 

 have been due to ice-action. 



