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second phase, which dates from the raising of the soil 
to the surface of the waters and the. growth of the 
forest upon it. In this the remains of the Aéphas 
antiguus are most abundant; other varieties of the 
elephant are found here, together with /imoceras 
etruscus and Trogonthertum Cuviert. ‘This may be 
regarded as the ‘True Forest Bed; the stools of the 
trees (see specimen under table case No. 3), belonging 
to it are visible along the coast at various places 
from Kessingland to Cromer. 
In Wall Case 10 are displayed the vertebree and 
bones oi whales, and teeth and horns of animals, from 
that portion of the Forest Bed Series which was 
estuarine. As the visitor passes before the. case 
there will be seen remains of these ancient and 
huge forms of animal life that lived in these latitudes 
when there was a different distribution of land and 
water, and when the land was covered with a dense © 
arboreal vegetation. We have, in Wall Case 11, bones 
of deer and the musk ox, and teeth of the Z7ogon- 
thertum. One of the finest objects in the collection 
is the almost entire antler of an extinct species of 
deer, Cervus Sedgwickit, so named after the vener- 
able Canon Sedgwick, the well-known professor of 
geology. ‘This specimen came from “the iron pan” 
at Bacton, on the coast. From the crown or ridge of 
the antler to the summit of the tip 1s at least four feet, 
whilst the lateral extension cannot be less than six 
feet. The extinct Irish Elk hardly exceeded this deer | 
in size. Close to this fine relic is a collection of teeth 
and other bones of the £/ephas meridionals ; and in 
Wall Case 12 is the jaw of “/zppopotamus mazor, from 
Cromer, presented by Miss Anna Gurney, alongside 
the scapula of a AAznoceros from Mundesley. In the 
next Case (13) are parts of the pelvis of an elephant 
from the cliff at Mundesley, with metatarsal and. 
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