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are the largest of the series, beyond these lies a vacant space which shows 
no trace of the former existence of teeth if there were any here, finally 
there are four teeth decreasing in size posteriorly, an indistinct fifth tooth, 
beyond which there are no serrations. At the anterior extremity below 
the first tooth is a scar perhaps locating another tooth ; this part of the 
fossil is elevated. A ridge beneath the posterior teeth extends anteriorly 
as far as the sixth tooth from the front. The thin basal rim is slightly 
curved up forming thus a narrow basal border. 
EDITORIAL COMMENT. 
The Fifty-Eighth Meeting of the British Association. 
The association met this year on September 5th, for the third 
time, in the old and historic city of Bath. Most of the En- 
glisli cities have now in the long life of the Association received 
more than one visit; and not unnaturally a part of the by-speak- 
ing consists of a review of the time that has elapsed since the 
previous meeting. In the present case this period covers 24 
years (1864-1888.) The city of Bath is one of those that has 
been the seat of human residence since very early times. JRace 
after race has left its mark on the city and the surrounding 
country. The luxurious Romans during their long stay in 
Britain discovered the healing and pleasurable Hot Springs and 
established themselves in the region which, perhaps, reminded 
them of their own BaiEe on the shores of the Mediterranean. 
Issuing from the ground at a temperature of about 117*^ in large 
quantity, these springs supplied them, in the cool, moist at- 
mosphere of Britain, with baths whose warmth was as grateful 
as the coolness of their companion waters in the hot Italian cli- 
mate. Aquae Sulis or Solis, as the city was then called, was a 
resort of the Roman and Romano-British population of the 
island for many years, and the relics of their buildings are often 
disentombed. An excellent example may now be seen, recently 
excavated, which has brought to light an extensive establish- 
ment, containing a large swimming bath (70 by 30 feet), and sev- 
eral other smaller baths, for the use of ladies and for therapeutic 
purposes. The water in the former now stands four feet deep, 
and the tank is entirely paved with sheet lead, in large plates 
half an inch thick. The Roman supply pipe still remains, and 
