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Tho auilior liad the good fortune to discover in this grotto a rioh deposit of 
fossil bones coninrisiug all the fossil Posl-plioccnc fauna of Sicily. JJut that 
which renders tliis discovery highly interesting is the finding, Ist, of entire 
jaws with their canine and molar teeth — the first evidence of the existence of 
carnivora in Sicily ; 2nd, a fragment of a molar apparently of Elephas Afncamm, 
tiic existence in Sicily of wiiieli animal is confirmed by another fragment of a 
molar from the " Grotte de I'Olivella." 
Lastly, in the " Grotte de San Teodoro" there have been found abundantly 
stone-weapons of trachytic and piionolitie rocks, the form of some of whicli do 
not permit us to doubt their human workmanship. I may remark here that the 
stone-weapons as yet found in Sicily have been only found in those places 
where the remains of deer and hog are accumidated. In the rich collection 
made from this cavern, the author, with the aid of M. Lartet, has determined 
the following species : — ■ 
Carnivora. — Spotted Hyaena; Bear, resembling the brown bear of the 
Alps {Ursus arctos); dog, wolf, fox, species much smaller than that of France. 
JloDiNTS. — Porcupine, Rabbit. 
Pachyderms. — Elephas anliqum, H. Africanus ; Hippopotamus, two species ; 
Sus, probably Sm scrofa, resembling the Sus of the north of Africa ; a soliped, 
probably an ass. 
Ruminants. — Ox, of middle stature ; ox, small and lank ; deer, one or two 
species ; sheep, or an allied ruminant. 
Batraciiians. — Large frog. 
Birds. — Small species undetermined. 
Marine Shells. — Ostrea larga, Cardium edule. 
Land Shells. — Helix aspersa, 
CopROLiTEs of hyajua. 
Also Stone Weapons. 
ON THE SELECTION OF PECULIAR GEOLOGICAL HABITATS BY 
SOME OP THE EAEER BRITISH PLANTS. 
By Rev. W. S. Symonds, E.G.S. 
Tiie author requested the aid of his brother naturalists on the above interest- 
ing subject, and remarked that he would be especially obliged by any com- 
munications from geologists and botanists during the ensuing summer and 
autumn. 
He is engaged with his friend, the Rev. Mr. Purchas, in preparing a work 
on the botany and geology of the county of Hereford, and had lately been 
struck with the selection of peculiar geological habitats by some of the rarest 
of our plants. He visited the rocks of Stanner, near Kingston, last month, in 
company with his friend Captain Guise, and found a certain baud of the 
Stanuer rocks clothed with Geranium sanguineum and Lychais viscaria. They 
also found the very rare Sceleranthus perermis. Now Lychnis viscaria grows only 
in five out of the eighteen botanical provinces into which England and Scotland 
have been subdivided. Stanner rocks are hypersthene greenstone, and Luchnis 
viscaria has selected to grow upon a black basaltic dyke. It has also selected 
a similar habitat on Salisbury Crags. Sceleranthus peremis grows only in two 
provinces in England and Scotland. It is remarkable that it should be found 
on the isolated trap rocks of Stanner with Lychnis viscaria, associated with 
Geranium sanguineum, neither of which are found within many miles of the 
Stanner traps. 
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