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tooth remaining in the socket in a perfect state, corresjionding exactly with the 
ordinary dcscriirtion of tlie niclmck. Above the shingle, in a stratum of strong 
ooze ali'utit ten feet thirk, (nuuilities uf alder roots and trees were found."— y/u-;o- 
rical Account of Wisltcach, bi/ W. Watson, 1827, p. 58. 
" Some labourers, in lsl<), digging for gravel in Chatteris, at a place called 
Campole, about half a mile fmm the church, found, at the depth of full ten feet 
from tiie surface, part of the skeleton of an elephant in a fossil state. The most 
perfect part was the two upper grinders ; these, when found, were fixed in the jaw- 
f)ones, which the men broke to come at the teeth. A short piece of tusk about 
three inches long, part of the skull, part of a leg-bone about fourteen inches long, 
.with some fragments of the jawbone, were all that were discovered. One of the 
grinders weigiied five pounds fourteen ounces. There were found in the same 
l)lace some pieces of wood (piite black and spongy. In 1S27 these relics were in 
the jjossession of Mr. John Girdlestone." — Op. cit. p. 578. 
" A very fine specimen of an Elk's horn was dug up in the vicinity of West 
Water, in"lS27."— cit. p. 578. 
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Geological Society of London, January 5th, 1859. — The following commu- 
nications were read ; — 
1. " On Fossil Plants from the Devonian Rocks of Gasp^, Canada." By Dr. 
J. W. Dawson, F.G.S., Mncipal of McGill's College, Montreal. 
The h)lant-bearing rocks in the peninsula of Gaspd were first noticed by Sir 
W. E. Logan in 1843. To determine these fossil plants accurately, it was neces- 
sary to study them in place. With this view Dr. Dawson visited Gaspe last 
summer, and carefully examined the localities by the aid of the plans and sections 
of the Geological Survey of Canada. The strata referred to have a vertical thick- 
ne.ss of 7,000 feet, as estimated by Sir W. Logan ; they rest on Upper Silurian 
rocks, and underlie the Carboniferous conglomerates ; and some beds contain Lower 
Devonian Brachiopods, &c. 
Among the vegetable remains determined by Dr. Dawson is a curious genus, 
termed by him Pdlophyton, which belonged to the Lycojjodiacece, and had minute 
adpressed leaves on slender dichotomously-branching stems, with circinate ver- 
nation, and springing from a horizontal rhizome, which had circular areoles with 
cylintlrical rootlets. Some of the shales are matted with these rhizomes. Obscm-e 
traces of fructification are observable in cuneate clusters of bracts. The fragments 
of the dift'erent parts of this interesting plant might easily Ije mistaken for portions 
of other and very distinct plants, such as Karstenia, Halonia, Stigmaria, Schizo- 
pterh, Trkhomanitcs, Fucoids, &c. The author describes two species of Psilophyton, 
P. princeps and P. robustius. 
Dr. Dawson further described a new form of Lepidodendron (Z. Gaspianum) ; 
also some specimens of Coniferous wood related to the Taxus {Prototaxites Loyani), 
and some less clear forms belonging to Knorria, Poacites, &c. The author also 
noticed the occurrence of Entomostraca (Beyrichia), Spirorbis, occasional fish- 
remains, some Brachiopods, and also rain-marks and ripple-marks in these 
Devonian beds. 
[Specimens of the Fossil Plants from Gaspe were exhibited in illustration of this 
paper.] 
2. " On some Points in Chemical Geology." By T. Sterry Hunt, Esq., of the 
Geological Commission of Canada. (Commimicated by Prof. A. C. Ramsay, F.G.S.) 
§ L Referring to his communications to other Societies, in which he had endea- 
voured to explain the theory of the transformation of sedimentary deposits into 
