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iipper division of the latter ; an opinion probably in harmony with that of 

 yir H. De la Beche already quoted. 



In an earlier paper on tJiis subject — based exclusively on the statistics of 

 the invertebrate fossils of Devon and Cornwall, considered both specifi- 

 cally and generically — I expressed the opinion, that the lowest beds of 

 Devonshire do not constitute the basement of the Devonian system, and 

 that the Earnstaple beds were rather Carboniferous than Devonian, or 

 were, perhaps, " passage-beds " between them.* It is not without interest 

 to find this opinion supported by the more reliable, because vertebrate, 

 evidence now produced. It will be remembered, too, that the indications 

 of the Holoptychian scale, already mentioned as having been described by 

 Professor Phillips, and which was also found in the Meadfoot slates, arc 

 to tlie same eflect. 



Like the Old lied Sandstone fish found in Eussia by Sir E. Murchison, 

 the Fhyllolepis scale was surrounded with marine shells,t and also by 

 corals of the family Ct/athophylUdai ; the ancient fish to which it belonged 

 was therefore not incapable of living in the sea,]; 



NOTICE OF FOSSILIZED MAMMALIAN EEMAINS FEOM THE BED 

 OF THE OEEMAN OCEAN. 



By C. B. Eose, F.a.S., etc. 

 It has for a very long period been known that, during the degradation 

 of the clifl's of the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, teeth and 

 bones of various mammals have been exhumed, and more largely those of 

 pachyderms. 



In Queen Elizabeth's time, huge bones were found at Walton, near Har- 

 wich. They were then considered to be those of giants. In the ' Philo- 

 sophical Transactions ' for 1745, a Mr. Baker records the finding of a fossil 

 elephant at Mundesley Cliff; and, in 1746, Mr. Wm. Ardcron, of Nor- 

 wich, makes mention of similar remains discovered at Hasborough and 

 Walket, on the Norfolk coast. My present object is, to lay before you a 

 few of the specimens which have been brought up from the bed of the 

 German Ocean, entangled in the trawling nets of the Yarmouth fisher- 

 men. Had they been more portable, I would have exhibited tusks and 

 other large remains of these huge beasts, of which there arc some fine 

 specimens in the collection of Messrs. Owles, Steward, Nash, and my own. 

 The late Miss Gurney, of Northreps, was the possessor of a large collec- 

 tion of fossil mammals from the cliffs of Cromer and its vicinity, and which 

 may now be seen in the Museum at Norwich. The Eev. John Gunn, of 

 Irstead, has made an extensive and rich collection of similar remains, from 

 Mundesley and Hasborough. 



In the course of years vast numbers of teeth and bones have been col- 

 lected. The late Mr. AVoodward, of Norwich, says, in his ' Geology of 

 Norfolk,' " Mammalian remains have been dredged up on the Knole Sand, 

 off Hasborough. This spot presented us, in 182(3, ^^ ith the finest tusk of the 

 mammotli; it measured 9^ feet along its curvature, and weighed 97 lbs." 

 But off' Dungeness a tusk was dredged up which measured 11 feet in 

 length, and yielded some pieces of ivory fit for manufacture. The oyster- 

 bed off Hasborough was discovered in 1820, and, from the number of 

 grinders of the elephant found there, Mr. Woodward felt himself war- 



* ' Geolojrist,' vol. v. pp. 28. and 31. f 'Siluria,' 3rd edit., pp. 383 and 433. 



I This scale has been 1 laiismitted to me and will shortly be figured. — Ed. Gkol. 



