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THE GEOLOGIST. 
success, altliougli the (licoroiical explaiiatiou of many of tlie plicuoniciia brought 
to light sccnis as yet to balUc ilie skill of the ablest geologists. Dr. Falconer 
Las given us an account of the remains oi several hundred hippopotami, 
obtained from one cavern, near Valermo, in a locality where there is now no 
running water. The same paheontologist, aided by Col. Wood, of Glamorgan- 
shire, has recently extracted froiii 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), l)oth allied 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 imjilements were observed by Dr. ralconer, associated in such a manner 
with the bones of extinct mammalia, as to lead him to infer that man nuist 
have co-existed with several hist species of quadrupeds; and de Vibraye 
has also this sjiring called attention to analogous conclusions, at which he has 
arrived by studying the ))osition of a huuuin jaw with teeth, accompanied by 
the remains of a manuuoth, under the stalagmite of the Grotto d'Arcis, near 
Troyes, iji France." 
The Papers read in the Geological Section were : — 
Professor Phillips. — " On the Geology of the Vicinity of Oxford." 
J. P. Whiteaves, Esq., P.G.S. — " On the luvertcbrata Fauna of the Lower 
Oolites of Oxfordshur." 
Edmund Hull, Esq., F.G.S. — " On the Blenheim Iron-Ore, and the thickness 
of the formations below the Great Oolite at Stouesfield." 
Bev. P. B. Brodie, F.G.S. — "On the Stratigraphical position of certain spe- 
cies of Coral in the Lias." 
Bev. H. B. Tristram. — " On the Geological characters of the Sahara." 
Bev. J. P. E. Denis, F.G.S. — -"On the mode of flight of the Pterodactyles 
of the Coprolite bed near Candnidge." 
Dr. Daubeny. — " Remarks on the Elevation Tiieory of Volcanos." 
T. Sterry-Hunt, Esq. — " Notes on some points in Chemical Geology." 
W. Pengelly, Esq. — On the Geographical and Chronological Distribution of 
Devonian Fossils in Devon and Cornwall." 
Dr Wright. — " On the Avieida coutorta bed, and Lower Lias in the South 
of England." 
Joseph Prestwich. — "On some new Facts in relation to the Section of the 
Cliff at Mundsley, Norfolk." 
Dr. Geiuitz. — " On Snow Crystals observed at Dresden." 
_ . — "On the Silurian Formation in the district of WilsdruiT." 
Professor Harkness. — " On the Metamorphic Bocks of the North of Ire- 
land." 
Captain Woodall. — " On the Intermittent Springs of the Chalk and Oolite of 
the neighbourhood of Scarborough." 
Sir K. I. Murchison. — Exhibited New Geological Map of Oxford. 
Dr. Anderson. — " Ile))ort on the Dura Den excavations." 
M. A. Favrc. — " On Circular Chains iu the Alps." 
Professor Jukes. — "On the Igneous Bocks intcrsiratified with the Carboni- 
ferous Limestone of the Basin of Limerick." 
