202 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Jan. 12, 
Lower down these valleys, at Leamington, when excavations were 
being made in the Jephson Gardens, bones of Elephant and Rhino- 
ceros were found. 
It remains now only to speak of the alluvial soil in these valleys 
and its contents, It does not appear to be anywhere very thick ; 
perhaps 7 or 8 feet is the outside; and it therefore merely fills up 
slight depressions in the valleys previously existing. The present 
streams go on adding to the alluvial soil by the frequent floods, and 
must be considered adequate to have produced the whole of it. 
The discovery of bones in this alluvium a few years ago caused 
considerable interest. This discovery was due to the industry and 
acuteness of Mr. K. Cleminshaw, then a pupil in the School. He 
made the discovery entirely his own by finding several places where 
such bones are to be met with. The most interesting of these are in 
the bed and banks of the stream near Newton, in the Avon a little 
below Newbold, and close by the little bridge below the Little-Law- 
ford Mill. These bones have not been specifically determined; and 
I cannet pronounce on them. A large collection of them is in the 
Arnold Library at Rugby. Three or four flints were found with 
them, which have been pronounced by fairly competent judges to be 
probabiy flint weapons. But I found in one of these localities, 
associated with the same bones, a piece of a wine-bottle, some 
pottery, not ancient, and the bowl of a tobacco-pipe; I am there- 
fore sceptical. 
This concludes this short notice on the superficial deposits near 
Rugby ; and I am not without hope it may be found useful to those 
who are engaged upon the problem of determining the history of the 
processes which the surface of the midland counties has undergone 
in the latest geological ages. 
3. On the SuperFictaL Deposits of Portions of the Avon and SEVERN 
Vatteys and adjoining Districts. By T. G. B. Luoyp, Esq., C.E., 
F.G.S. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Iy the following paper I propose to describe first of all the facts 
which I have collected together upon the subject, and secondly to 
show what probable inferences may be drawn from them, in expla- 
nation of the relative antiquity of these river-valleys and their 
superficial deposits. 
Part I. Tue SuperricraL Deposits oF THE VALLEY OF THE AVON. 
Literature of the Subject.—Sir W. Jardine’s ‘Memoirs of H. E. 
Strickland’ contain several papers on the Geology of Worcester- 
shire and Warwickshire, in which are found very clear and accurate 
descriptions of many of the phenomena of the drifted deposits of 
the Avon valley and surrounding country. An account is given of 
the late Professor Strickland’s discovery of land- and freshwater 
shells, associated with mammalian remains, in the grayel-beds of 
