MAMMOTH AND OTHER REMAINS IN ENDSLEIGH STREET. 453 



30. On the Discovery of Mammoth and other Eemains in Ends- 

 LEiGH Street and on Sections exposed mENDSLEiGH Gardens, 

 Gordon Street, Gordon Square, and Tavistock Square, 

 London. By Henry Hicks, M.D., F.E.S., Sec. Geol. Soc. (Eead 

 May 25tli, 1892.) 



Contents. Page 



§1. Introduction 453 



§ 2. Endsleigh Street 455 



§ 3. Endsleigh Gardens 458 



I 4. Upper Woburn Place and the eastern side of Tavistock Square . 461 



§ 5. Southern sides of Tavistock and Gordon Squares 461 



§ 6. Gordon Street and the western side of Gordon Square 463 



§7. Conclusions 466 



§ 1. Introduction. 



On March 9th of the present year I received a communication from 

 Mr. W. R. Bousfield, Q.C., M.P., in which he stated that his friend 

 Mr. G. Hornblower, A.E.I.B.A., had two days before secured portions 

 of a Mammoth tusk, which he had noticed lying on a heap of clay 

 brought up from an excavation made for the purpose of deepening 

 the sewer in Endsleigh Street, W.C. On March 14th I called at 

 Mr. Hornblower's office to see the portions of tusk, and I found 

 that he had in his possession about 3 feet 6 inches of the base of a 

 large tusk, some fragments, and about 2 feet of the anterior portion. 

 It was clear that it had only recently been broken, and that all the 

 fragments belonged to the same tusk. Its circumference at the 

 thickest part was 22 1 inches. I then visited the spot in Endsleigh 

 Street whence it had been obtained, and found there several frag- 

 ments which had been left behind, and also a portion of a rib wbich 

 was lying on the clay. In course of conversation with the workmen 

 I was informed that the tusk, which was evidently quite complete 

 when first seen, had been found near the northern end of the street, 

 at a depth of about 22 feet from the surface, and that they had left 

 in the cutting another tusk of the same size. The tusks were near 

 together, and doubtless belonged to the same animal, but the one 

 left behind reached along the side of the cutting only, and therefore 

 it was not necessary to remove it. The exposed portion of it was, 

 however, measured, and this was found to be over 7 feet in length. 

 iN'o attempt to obtain it was made, and as that part of the sewer had 

 been bricked up before I visited the place I was unable to secure the 

 specimen. Erom the clay which had been brought up from the 

 excavation, in addition to the rib mentioned, I obtained afterwards 

 a broken vertebra of the Mammoth, and also a vertebra of Deer. On 

 the same day I called at the office of the contractor, Mr. J. H. Neave, 

 and asked that I might be informed of any further discoveries which 

 might be made. I also called at the office of the Geological Survey 

 in Jenny n Street, and Mr. Clement Beid afterwards accompanied 



