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TJie species are — Elephas pr'imi genius (determined by Dr. Falconer) in 
the embedded lump of Tertiary rock, Pectunculus Plumsteadiensis, Na- 
tica glicim era ides, and Rostellaria Soicerbii (determined by Mr. Prest- 
wich). — Ed. Geol. 
Gallic Caxoe. — The dredgings in the Seine have brought to light the 
interesting remains of a canoe fashioned of the trunk of a tree, 5^ metres 
long, and 85 centimetres broad in the middle, and attributed by the French 
antiquarians to the Gallic era. In the same place seventeen pieces of 
Gallic money, a knife, a flint axe, and various pieces of pottery were found 
at the same time. 
Lead Oee. — A vein of lead-ore has been discovered at Port Jervis, 
Orange County, N. Y., containing 80 per cent, of pure lead, and six feet 
wide by eight feet deep, in the Oneida Sandstone. 
Mammalian Eemains. — Dr. Buckland records, in the Geological So- 
ciety's Transactions, vol. iv. p. 287, the discoA'ery of " four large and 
entire tusks of elephants," in a garden opposite the chalk pit at the base 
of Loam-pit Hill, and on the north side of the turnpike-road. They were 
for some time (1817) in the possession of Mr. Lee, the owner of the ex- 
tensive brick-works there. 
jN^oefolk Broads, — Sir, — I should be much obliged if you could inform 
me of the origin of our "^Norfolk Broads." They are, as the name im- 
plies, broad, comparatively shallow, sheets of water of various extent, 
generally a few miles only from the sea, and partially overgrown with 
reeds, etc. I have myself a suspicion that they are in some way connected 
with the Crag sea. — Yours truly, Cdaules Jicks, jun. 
P.S. — It may be as well to add that the " Broads" above-named have, I 
believe, always some connection with a tidal river. 
Woodlands, T/iorpe, near Norwich, March 23. 
Disturbance of the Sea. — The ' Grahamstown Journal ' (February, 
1863) makes the following statement : — "A ftirmer named Elliott, residing 
near Gusha River, while crossing the mouth of the Keiskama, a few days 
since, noticed an eruption in the sea, which was violently agitated and 
forced upwards as from the spouting of a whale. On approaching the spot 
as closely as possible, he perceived that a dense body of smoke rose as 
from a crater, and when the tide threw the surf over the spot it was im- 
mediately thrown some forty or fifty yards into the air, the water, for the 
circumference of half a mile, assuming the colour of the blackest ink. 
This continued for some fifteen minutes, and gradually died away with a 
rumbling sound." 
Errata. — Sir, — The note " On a Progressive Change in the Form of 
the Earth," page 110 of the number for q 
March, is, I am sorry to find, unintelligible, 
in consequence of the omission from the 
diagram of letters referred to in the text. 
The diagram ought to have been thus 
marked. — George Hamilton. 
Queen's College, Liverpool, March 8lh, 1863. 
Errata. — Blackdown Greensand. — In 
Plate III. Sidmouth and Lyme Eegis are 
interchanged as to positions. 
Errata. — In Plate III. figs. 4 and 5 are transposed. Fig. 4 is Glypto- 
lepis scale; fig. 5. Holoptj^chius scale. 
Errata in Table of Bird Remains. — The x to Coturnix is put in 
the Maestricht instead of in the Eocene column, and the X to Perdix in 
the Eocene instead of in the Miocene column ; the ? to Gallus and the ? 
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