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THE GEOLOGIST. 



PROCEEDmaS OF GEOLOaiCAL SOCIETIES. 



Geological Society of London, — June 13, 1860. ( Continued.) 



2. "On some Arrow-lieads and other Instruments found with Horns of 

 Cerviia megaceros, in a Cavern in Languedoc." By M. E. Lartet, Por. M.G.S. 

 (In a letter to the President.) 



In a cavern of the limestone at Massat, near Tarascon in Languedoc (Depart- 

 ment of Aricge), examined by M. A. Pontau, the floor was found to consist of 

 a blackish earth, with large rounded pebbles, among which were mixed, ia great 

 disorder, bones and Horns of a Chamois, Cervus pseudovirginianm, C. megaceros, 

 and Bos, together with implements of stone and bone, to which MM. Isidore 

 GeofTroy Saint-Hilaire and E. Lartet have referred to in the ' Comptes Rendus' 

 of May'lO, 1858. 



M. £. Lartet in his letter, has furnished drawings and descriptions of some 

 barbed arrow-heads of bone, some having indented grooves, probably for the 

 appliance of poison ; also needles, and a flute-bevelled tool of bone, a splinter 

 or knife of hard flint, and the horn of an Antelope hacked at the base, probably 

 when tlie animal was flayed. 



3. "On the occurrence of Crag Shells beneath the Boulder-clay in Aberdeen- 

 shire." By T. E. Jamieson, Esq. Communicated by Sir B. 1. Murchison, 

 V.P.G.S. 



In a former paper (Q. J. G. S. vol. xiv., pp. 522-525) the author referred to 

 the existence of gravelly beds containing marine shells underlying the boulder- 

 clay between Couden and Slains, on the coast of Aberdeenshire, over an area 

 of about six miles by three and a half ; these shelly sands and gravels he has 

 since more carcfvdly examined, and he refers them to the age of either the Red 

 or tlie JMannnaliferous Crag of England. Ci/prina riistica, C. Mandica, 

 Asfarfc, s])p., J'c/n's, spp., Arteiuis lincta, Cardhim spp., Pecten oj)ercidaris, var. 

 Aifdoii'nii, P. /,iii.r/„i/'.s /, J\ prlnceps?, Fectancidus (jlycimeris, TelUna 

 solid j\lj/a fr/o/c((f(! , F/zsns a j/t/qia/s and its \ai'ieij con t/Y/ri^fs, JIangelia, 

 Pin-pid'a lapilliis, var. crispafa, occiu- in worn fragments. Cyprina Mandica 

 is llie most abundant. 



Chalk-Hints are connnon among the materials of the beds in question; also 

 fragnicnts of fossiliferous limestone and of red and grey sandstones, of undeter- 

 mined age. 



4. "On som(^ small fossil Vertebra: near Prome, Somersetshu-e." Bv Prof. 

 Owen, P.U.S., P.G.S. 



In this ccnnmunieation Prof. Owen described three minute Yertebrre dis- 

 covered by Cliarles Moore, Esq., P.C^.S., in an agglomerate occupying a Assure 

 of the CarbonitVrons Limestoni\ near Frtnuc in ISomerset shire, in couipauv with 

 teeth of a small jMammal allied to the Microlcslr^ of Plicninger. The vertebra) 

 are st at ed t o corresnond in size wit h the t eel h of Microlesfes ; b\it to have Reptilian 

 rharaeters, especially in their biconcave structure, — a character common in 

 ]\leso/.i>ie Sauvians, but rare in the existing genera. There appears to be but 

 v(M-y slight grounds for supposing that such a character may have ever belonged 

 to any Maunnals, althongh some of the existing Jlonofj-e/iiafa have peculiar 

 vertebral modilieations somewhat resembling, in "these respects, the structural 

 features of Reptiles. In their large and anchvlosed neui-al arch, however, these 

 little vertebra^ present a maunnaliau character. 



Uemains also of small Saurians and Pishes occur in considerable numbers 

 with the Ycrtebrre in question, as well as the more rare mammalian teeth. 



