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upper division of the latter ; an opinion probably in harmony with that of 
Sir H. De la Beche already quoted. 
In an earher paper on this 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 Barnstaple beds were rather Carboniferous than Dev^onian, or 
were, perhaps, " passage-beds " between them.* It is not without interest 
to find this opinion supported by the more reliable, because vertebrate, 
evidence novv 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, are 
to the same effect. 
Like the Old Eed Sandstone fish found in Eussia by Sir E. Murchison, 
the Phyllolepis scale was surrounded with marine shells,t and also by 
corals of the family CyathophylUdce ; the ancient fish to which it belonged 
was therefore not incapable of living in the sea.;}; 
NOTICE OF rOSSILTZED MAMMALIAN EEMAINS FEOM THE BED 
OF THE GERMAN OCEAN. 
By C. B. Rose, F.O.S., etc. 
It has for a very long period been known that, during the degradation 
of the clifis 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 jMr. Baker records the finding of a fossil 
elephant at Mundesley Cliff; and, in 1746, Mr. AVm. Arderon, of Nor- 
wich, makes mention of similar remains discovered at Ilasborough 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 liuge beasts, of which there are some fine 
specimens in the collection of Messrs. Owles, Steward, Nash, and m}-- 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. Woodward, 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 1826, with 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- 
* ' Geolo.ijist,' vol. v. pp. 28 and 31. f 'Siluria,' 3rd edit., pp. 383 and 433. 
\ This scale has been transmitted to iiie and will shortly be figured. — Ed. Geol. 
