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last, as far as is known, of the Pala30zoic vertebrates ; and tliose which 

 ai)proach nearest in time to the higher forms of life in the sueeeeding or 

 Mesozoic period. 



Animal Rkjiains in Tkisii Pkat Bogs. — In tlie ' Archreolo^ia' (No. 

 177G), vol. ii. p. 359, is " An Account of some Antique Curiosities found 

 in a small Boo- near Cullen, co. Tippernry," hj (rovernor Pownall, which 

 consists (;lii(>lly of records of g'old articles found by various poor people 

 tliore. The followin<j; two passa<^es are all (hat relate to animal remains. 

 " In digging away the bog, about G feet deep, as far as it extended, there 

 was nothing only trunks of different trees all rotten, except the oak and fir, 

 wliicii were for the most part found, and some horns, large enough to have 

 a circle of three feet in diameter described on each palm," " A.D. 1773. 

 A man found in digging the bog, a skull with two horns shaped like 

 those on Kerry sheop, but longer, 'No person who has seen it can tell to 

 what beast the skull belonged." 



Mammalian Hemains. — The drift-bed at Aylesford, Kent, has just 

 yielded a lower jaw of Mammoth in good preservation, with molars in 

 their sockets. Close to it was found a tusk much curved, eight feet long, 

 and perfect for the entire length, no doubt belonging to the same indi- 

 vidual. It is to be hoped these specimens will be preserved in the Maid- 

 stone Museum. 



Mammoth Remains. — In an extract from the Minute Book of the Cam- 

 bridge Philosophical Society, 20tli November, 1821, there is a notice of 

 fossil organic remains found near Streatham, in the Isle of Ely, by Dr. 

 Frederick Thackeray.* He says, " The finest examples of organic remains 

 characteristic of beds of alluvium rather rest upon the line of junction 

 between clay and gravel tlian in the gravel itself" He adds, "A very 

 considerable part of the skeleton of a mammoth was lately found in a 

 gravel-pit near Chatteris." 



Fossil Monkeys. — The references to EopitJiecus Colchesteri , Owen 

 (Macacus eoccmus, Owen), from the Kyson sand, in Suffolk, made in my 

 article on "Fossil Monkeys" (' Geologist/ vol. v. pp. 82, 83, 85), are can- 

 celled, as well as hny other reference to Eocene monkeys. — Charles 

 Carter Blake. 



Erratum. — In my taljle of the association of human remains with those 

 of extinct and recent Mammalia, p. 228, in the column headed " Massat," 

 crosses should be inserted opposite Felis apehea, Vrsus sjjelanis, and IlycEna 

 spelcEa ; in the column headed " A'^alley of the Trent," the cross opposite 

 Cervus megdceros should be erased, and crosses inserted opposite Canis 

 lapus and C.famlUaris. Two extinct species of Mammalia were conse- 

 quently found with the Muskham skull, and five existing species. 



Charles Carter Blake, 



Mammoth Eemains. — Mr. A. B. Euhmond, of Meadville, Pennsylvania, 

 records in the ' Scientific American ' the discovery of mammoth remains in 

 the excavations of the Atlantic and Great Western Eailway at French 

 Crv^ek, Crawford County. 



Discoveries of Lake-Habitations. — A statement appears in the 

 ' Anzeiger liir Kunde der Deutschcn A'^orzeit,' of Niirnberg, for July, 

 tliat at Miincheberg, at a dej)th of 18 feet, AAorkmen who were making an 

 excavation for a new brewhouse discovered a P/'a/ilicerk, or Ijake-dweliing, 

 containing much dung, animal bones, and stags' horns. Another ])ilework 

 liad been discovered in Frauenfeld (Thurgau), which has only been par- 

 tially examined. 



* A fossil bono, of wliat species is not slalcil. The specimen was prcscnteil to tlic 

 Cambiidge ^Museum by Dr. Thackeray. — Eu. Gkol. 



