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THE GEOLOGIST. 



success, althougli the theoretical explanation of many of the phenomena brought 

 to light seems as yet to baffle the skill of the ablest geologists. Dr. Palconer 

 has given us an account of the remains of several hundred hippopotami, 

 obtained from one cavern, near Palermo, in a locality where there is now no 

 running water. The same paleeontologist, aided by Col. Wood, of Glamorgan- 

 shire, has recently extracted from a single cave in the Gower peninsula of South 

 Wales, a vast quantity of the antlers of a reindeer (perhaps of two species of 

 reindeer), both alHed 'to the living one. These fossils are most of them shed 

 horns ; and. there have been already no less than one thousand one hundred of 

 them dug out of the mud filling one cave. 



In the cave of Brixham, in Devonshire, and in another near Palermo, in Sicily, 

 flint implements were observed by Dr. Palconer, associated in such a manner 

 with the bones of extinct mammalia, as to lead him to infer that man must 

 liave co-existed with several lost species of quadrupeds ; and M. de Yibraye 

 has also this spring called attention to analogous conclusions, at which he has 

 arrived by studying the position of a human jaw with teeth, accompaiiied by 

 the remains of a mammoth, under the stalagmite of the Grotto d'Arcis, near 

 Troyes, in Prance." 



The Papers read in the Geological Section were : — 



Professor Phillips.^ — " On the Geology of the Yicinity of Oxford." 



J. P. Whiteaves, Esq., P.G.S. — " On the Invertebrata Pauna of the Lower 

 Oolites of Oxfordshire." 



Edmund Hull, Esq., P.G.S. — " On the Blenheim Iron-Ore, and the thickness 

 of the formations below the Great Oolite at Stonesfield." 



Tlev. P. B. Brodie, P.G.S. — " On the Stratigraphical position of certain spe- 

 cies of Coral in the Lias." 



Uev. H. B. Tristram. — " On the Geological characters of the Sahara." 



liev. J. P. B. Denis, P.G.S.— On the mode of flight of the Pterodactyles 

 of the Coprolite bed near Cambridge." 



Dr. Daubeny. — " Remarks on the Elevation Theory of Yolcanos." 



T. Sterry-Hunt, Esq. — " Notes on some points in Chemical Geology." 



W. Pengelly, Esq.- — On the Geographical and Chronological Distribution of 

 Devonian Possils in Devon and Cornwall." 



Dr. Wright. — "On the Avicula contorta bed, and Lower Lias in the South 

 of J']ngknd." 



Jose])h Prestwich. — " On some new Pacts in relation to the Section of the 

 Clilf at Mundsley, Norfolk." 



Dr. Geinitz. — " On Snow Crystals observed at Dresden." 



. — " On the Silurian Pormation in the district of Wilsdruff." 



Professor Harkness. — "On the Metamorphic Rocks of the North of L-e- 

 laiuk" 



Caphuii ■^Voodall. — "On the Litermittent Springs of the Chalk and Oolite of 

 ilie urighbourhood of Scarborough." 



Sir R. 1. IMurehisou. — Exhibited New Geological Map of Oxford, 

 Dr. Aiidin t^oii. — " Report on the Dura Den excavations." 

 M. A. Favrc.--" On Circular Chains in the Alps." 



Professor .lukos. — "On the Igneous Rocks intcrstratified with the Carboni- 

 ferous Liniestoiie of the Ixisiu of Limerick." 



