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The society already numbers upwards of 200 members, including many 
well-knovrn scientific men, who have rendered good service to science by 
their local investigations. We augur well for the new society, if its pro- 
moters only follow up their successful starting, by doing reaUy practical 
work. We have no doubt it will soon become a useful institution for the 
important district over which its operations will extend. 
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A rossiLiFERGUs Caye AT Meliha. — Auothcr of these interesting 
storehouses of the relics of the Pleistocene age was brought to light last 
week through the researches of Captain Spratt, R.N., whose scientific 
labours in connection with the geology of these islands are so well known 
and appreciated. Vague rumours prevailed some years ago of the existence 
of a cave of this kind at Meliha, which coming to the ears of the late 
lamented Sir William Eeid, he directed the attention of Lord Ducie and 
Captain Spratt to the spot, but nothing then could be found. A fossil 
hippopotamus tooth in the possession of Signor Pace, an Italian gentleman 
residing here, said to have been obtained from Meliha, led Captain Spratt 
to institute closer and stricter inquiries, and, while in the Bay of Meliha 
with his ship a few days ago, he succeeded in finding the remains of 
a fossiliferous cave at a short distance from the village church. It had 
been, unfortunately, almost destroyed to make way for a road, and the 
rubble used to fill up the interstices of a v ail ; but sufficient remains of 
hippopotamus bones and teeth were dug up to indicate its having been of a 
similar character to the Meilach cave near Crendi, regarding which we 
lately published some interesting particulars from the pen of Dr. Leith 
Adams, of the 22nd Uee;iment— Malta Times, July 17. 
Human E-emains. — In June, 1747, the body of a woman was found six 
feet deep in a peat-moor in the isle of Axholm, in Lincolnshire. The an- 
tique sandals on her feet ajQforded evidence of her having been been buried 
there for many ages. Can any of our readers give information as to what 
has become of these relics, and whetlier any other very ancient human 
remains have been found in the district? 
In a turbary on the e tate of the Earl of Moira, in Ireland, many years 
ago, a human body was dug up a foot deep in gravel, covered M'ith eleven 
feet of moss ; the body was completely clothed, and the garments seemed, 
it is said, to be all made of hair. It would be highly desirable to get in- 
formation respecting such finds, especially whether they have been pre- 
served in any collection. 
Deer in England. — Mr. Eichard Howse, in the committee's address, 
p. 190, Trans. Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, vol. v., p. iii. (1862), i.e. 
from the paper read in 1861, makes the following statement: — "On a 
recent visit to Newcastle, Professor Owen stated that the former was the 
first and only proof he had seen of the occurrence of the Moose in the fos- 
siliferous deposits of England." As the word Moose alone here might 
lead to a natural mistake, we think it right to observe that we believe the 
specimens referred to belonged to the Elk or Moose (Cervus alces, Linn.). 
They do not belong to the Wapiti {Cervus canadensis). 
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