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last, as far as is known, of the Palfeozoie vertebrates ; and those which 
approach nearest in time to the higher forms of life in the succeeding or 
Mesozoic period. 
Animal Remains in Irish Peat Bogs. — In the ' Archaologia' (No. 
1776), vol. ii. p. 359, is " An Account of some Antique Curiosities found 
in a small Bog near Cullen, co. Tipperary," by Governor Pownall, which 
consists chiefly of records of gold articles found by various poor people 
there. The following two passages are all that relate to animal remains. 
" In digging away the bog, about 6 feet deep, as far as it extended, there 
was nothing only trunks of different trees all rotten, except the oak and fir, 
which 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 sheep, but longer. No person who has seen it can tell to 
what beast the skull belonged." 
Mammalian Remains. — 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, 20th 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 than 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 Eopithecns Colchesteri, Owen 
(Macacus eoccenus, 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 any other reference to Eocene monkeys. — Charles 
Carter Blake. 
Erratum. — In my table 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 spclci'a, TJrsus spclceus, and Hycena 
spelcea ; in the column headed " Valley of the Trent," the cross opposite 
Cervus megaceros should be erased, and crosses inserted opposite Can'is 
lupus and C.familiaris. Two extinct species of Mammalia were conse- 
quently found with i\e Muskham skull, and five existing species. 
Charles Carter Blake. 
Mammoth Remains. — Mr. A. B. Ruhmond, of Meadville, Pennsylvania, 
records in the ' Scientific American ' the discovery of mammoth remains in 
the excavations of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway at French 
Creek, Crawford County. 
Discoveries of Lake-Habitations. — A statement appears in the 
* Anzeiger fiir Kunde der Deutschen Vorzeit,' of Niirnberg, for July, 
that at Miincheberg, at a depth of 18 feet, workmen who were making an 
excavation for a new brewhouse discovered a Pfahlwerlc, or Lake-dwelling, 
containing much dung, animal bones, and stags' horns. Another pilework 
had been discovered in Frauenfeld (Thurgau), which has only been par- 
tially examined. 
* A fossil bone, of what species is not stated. The specimen was presented to the 
Cambridge Museum by Dr. Thackeray. — Ed. Geol. 
