Prof. Huxley on a new Specimen o/Telerpeton Elginense. 153 



presents only two phalanges, a proximal and a terminal) — a structure 

 which differs from that of all known Lacertilian Reptiles, whether 

 recent or fossil. His researches had led him to conclude that the 

 animal is one of the Reptilia, and is devoid of the slightest indication 

 of affinity with the Amphibia. In all its characters it is decidedly 

 Saurian, and accords with the suborder Kionocrania of the true 

 Lacertilia ; but the author had not been able to make sure that it 

 possessed a columella. He also remarked that the possession by 

 Telerpeton Elginense of vertebrae with concave articular faces does 

 not interfere with this view, as, although most recent Lacertilia have 

 concavo-convex vertebrae, biconcave vertebra?, much more deeply 

 excavated than those of T. Elginense are met with among the exist- 

 ing Geckos. 



Professor Huxley in conclusion drew attention to the interesting 

 fact that Telerpeton presents not a single character approximating it 

 towards the type of the Permian Proterosauria, or the Triassic 

 Rhynchosauras and the probably Triassic African and Asiatic allies 

 of that genus, or to the Mesozoic Dinosauria, and that, whether 

 the age of the deposit in which it occurs be Triassic or Devonian, 

 Telerpeton is a striking example of a persistent type of animal or- 

 ganization. 



2. " On a section at Litcham affording evidence of Land-glacia- 

 tion during the earlier part of the Glacial period in England." 

 By S. V. Wood, Jun., Esq., F.G.S. 



The structure of the Lower Drift and the limited area to which 

 it is confined seemed to the author to indicate that the glacial 

 conditions sustained by the area under consideration were chiefly 

 those of land-ice, while its limited extent and rapid attenuation in 

 all directions from the Cromer coast have led him to infer that only 

 a small part of England was under water at the time. On the other 

 hand, the great masses of chalk and of chalky debris that were 

 carried into the marine sediment appear to indicate the presence, 

 near at hand, of some terrestrial chalk-area from which they were 

 detached, and he stated his belief that during this period much of 

 the chalk of Norfolk was covered by a great glacier. In illustration 

 of this view Mr. SearlesWood described a section at Litcham, in which 

 the Chalk- with-flintbands is seen to become gradually more impure 

 towards the surface, the flints becoming at the same time detached 

 and scattered, this disturbance having been produced, in his opinion, 

 by a force acting downwards from the surface and becoming less 

 powerful the deeper the section descends. 



3. " On the evidence of a third Boulder-clay in Norfolk." By 

 F. W. Harmer, Esq. 



The author described a deposit of true Boulder-clay, from 9 to 1 5 

 feet in thickness, resting on the chalk, and occurring at a slight 

 elevation above the bottom of the valley of the Yare. It seemed to 

 him to be distinct in age both from the Till of the Cromer cliffs and 

 from the much more recent Boulder-clay which caps the high land 

 on each side of the valley ; and he gave sections which appeared to 



