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species, with a few that have not hitherto been noticed. They ap- 

 pear to be of Lower Carboniferous age. 



In the Introduction Mr. Godwin-Austen gave a synopsis of the 

 more remarkable facts brought forward in the paper, and in a Re- 

 sume he gave lists of the fossils which had as yet been determined. 

 These were forty-seven in number, forty-two of w r hich had specific 

 names, and twenty-two of which are well-known forms ; eight are 

 common to the Punjaub and Kashmere, seven of them being also 

 European species. Of*the Kashmere list, full half the species are 

 found in British Carboniferous beds ; and Mr. Godwin- Austen re- 

 marked on the support given to the notion of the approximate con- 

 temporaneity of distant formations containing the same fossils by*the 

 occurrence of these European Lower Carboniferous species near the 

 base of the Carboniferous formation of Kashmere. 



2. " On the Mammalian Remains found by E. Wood, Esq., near 

 Richmond, Yorkshire." By W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq., B.A., F.G.S. 

 With an Introductory Note on the Deposit in which they were 

 found. By E. Wood, Esq., F.G.S., and G. E. Roberts, Esq., 

 F.G.S. 



These mammalian remains were discovered last autumn on a 

 terrace of blue clay, mixed with limestone debris, about 130 feet 

 above the north bank of the River Swale, during excavations for a 

 new sewer. The deposit was stated by Mr. Dawkins to be a heap 

 of kitchen-refuse ; and the great majority of the bones, except the 

 solid and marrowless, are consequently broken, while not one of the 

 numerous skulls is perfect. The collection contained bones of the 

 following species : — Ursus arctos, Canis familiar is, Sus scrofa, Horse, 

 Cervus Elaphus, Cervus dama, Bos longifrons, Bos brachyceros, Ovis 

 Aries, Capra cegagrus, and the horn-cores of a third form of goat, 

 which appeared to be the JEgoceros Caucasica, which had also been 

 found by Mr. Dawkins and Mr. Sanford in a bone-cavern explored 

 by them in 1863. In a note to Mr. Dawkins, M. Lartet expressed 

 his opinion that these horn- cores belonged to some of the diversified 

 forms that are the result of hybridity, and stated that they resembled 

 some found in a bone-cave in the Pyrenees, which appeared to belong 

 to a hybrid between the goat and the Bouquetin. 



LV. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



ON THE DEPORTMENT OF TWO SALTS IN SOLUTION. 

 BY E. GERLAND. 



ACCORDING to Berthollet, whenever two salts are dissolved, four 

 salts are formed out of them, inasmuch as each acid unites with 

 each base. This law has recently received an important confirma- 

 tion from Graham's researches on liquid diffusion. He found in the 

 case of mixtures of chloride of potassium and sulphate of soda, and 

 of sulphate of potash and chloride of sodium, that the diffusion of the 

 metals is not limited by the acids with which they are united. 



The validity of Berthollet' s law may be further tested by investi- 



