The earliest discovery of Elephant-remains in the British Isles appears to have been made in Ireland, and is recorded in the xxixth volume of the Philosophical Transactions.

During one of my last visits to England I had the opportunity of visiting a great number of palsæontological collections. Amongst those which afforded me the greatest pleasure, I would specially mention the collections of Mr. Edward Wood, F.G.S., at Richmond, in Yorkshire, and of Mr. John Gray, at Hagley, near Stourbridge.

The sandstone beds which skirt the eastern border of Wales, and stretch from a little south-west of the town of Oswestry to near the Point of Ayr, on the shores of the Irish Sea, a distance of upwards of 40 miles in a direct line, have for several years past been a source of perplexity to those who have investigated their peculiarities, and who have been interested in arriving at a determination of their true age and geological horizon.

During a short vacation visit to Derbyshire I have had the opportunity of making some further notes on burrows in limestone rocks, which may be worth recording. These burrows, it will be remembered, have been attributed by Messrs. Darbyshire, Mackintosh, and others, to the action of Pholades, a conclusion which I ventured to oppose, after an examination of several instances in the neighbourhood of Llandudno. Mr. Darbyshire calls attention, in his paper, to the occurrence of these burrows near Buxton, on Grin Edge and Harper Hill, at a height of about 1400 feet above the sea. I was therefore fully prepared to meet with them in the Carboniferous Limestone in other parts of the county.

I Have much pleasure in furnishing you with the accompanying rough sketch of the rock on which were discovered, some time ago, the remains of a building and its “kitchen-midden,” belonging to a remote period, and in which you took some interest in respect of its bearing upon a geological question of the day, namely, the supposed rise of our coasts within the historical period. The rock in question, situated about three miles east of North Berwick, on the south side of the Frith of Forth, is isolated at spring-tides, but is not at other times separated by the sea from the main-land.

We must consider that the ice from Scotland and England was but a fraction of that which entered the North Sea. The greater part of the ice of Scandinavia must have gone into this sea, and if the ice of our island could not find water sufficiently deep in which to float, far less would the much thicker ice of Scandinavia do so. The Scandinavian ice, before it could break up, would thus, like the Scottish ice, have to cross the bed of the North Sea and pass into the Atlantic. It could not pass to the north, nor to the north-west, for the ocean in these directions would be blocked up by the Polar ice.

The Buchholm Sandstones.—These beds are characterized by the evidence they afford of having accumulated in shallow water. They consist generally of gritty greywackes and light green or red, sandy, incoherent shales and mudstones.

Errata.—In Prof. T. Rupert Jones'e article last month we notice the following Errata: p. 217, line 17, for Fig. 1, read Fig. 3; p. 218, line 26, for sharper, read blunter; p. 218, line 37, for larger, read smaller.