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first colour-printed map issued by the Geological Survey. I wish
also to note its unprecedentedly low price of 2s. 6d; It is in the
highest degree desirable that its merits and existence should be
widely known as, should its sale be large, other maps, illustrating
districts of similar size, will be published at similar prices. But that
will occur only in the event of this map turning out to be a com-
mercial success. And when we remember how many cheap and
admirable Government publications remain unknown to thousands
(who would purchase them did they know of their existence) owing
to the utter neglect of Government Departments to give them any
fair chance of being known and sold—a neglect that would ruin any
private firm—I do not think you will charge me with unnecessarily
taking up your time in calling attention to this new departure in
Geological Maps.1
DISCOVERY OF MAMMALIAN REMAINS
AT GREAT YELDHAM, ESSEX.
By T. V. HOLMES, F.G.S., with notes by E. T. NEWTON, F.R.S., F G.S.
TOWARDS the end of February, 1896, I received a letter from
Mr. E. A. Fitch, enclosing one sent to him by Mr. T. Goodchild,
of Great Yeldham Hall, in which the latter gentleman mentioned the
discovery of bones, antlers, etc., in a brickyard close to Yeldham
Railway Station. Mr. Fitch very kindly offered to go with me to
the spot, and, accompanied by Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., on behalf
of the Geological Survey, we visited Great Yeldham on March 5th,
1896.
On arrival, Mr. Goodchild at once conducted us to the brickyard
about 200 yards west of the Railway Station, which is marked on
both the old and the newer ordnance maps, and has thus evidently
been a brickfield for many years. It had, however, at the time of our
visit, a general aspect of disuse and decay, sheds and other buildings
shown on the six-inch to the mile map being either ruinous or having
disappeared, and the sections being obscured and overgrown. In
the Geological Survey Memoir, on Sheet 47 (which includes Essex
north of a straight line from the junction of the Lea and Stort to
1 Mr Holmes has kindly presented a copy of the map above described to the Forest Museum.
It may be useful to add that the sole official agent for the sale of the Government Maps is
Stanford, Charing Cross, London.—Ed.