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covered by further falls of soil from the cliff. One fisherman
found what appears to have been a tusk, sticking upright out of
the mud, but it was broken to pieces in getting it out. The
two large molars are now in the possession of Mr. R. Brooks,
of Mistley, who has been good enough to present them to our
Museum.1
A few months after Mr. Wilmer and I noticed these bones,
several of us made an attempt to examine the spot more fully and
to dig out some of the bones in a perfect condition. Arrangements
for this were very kindly made by Mr. Nichols, and we were
accompanied by Mr. E. MacArthur Moir, Dr. Philip Laver, and
Mr. A. G. Wright. We found bones, in a more or less frag-
mentary condition, abundantly, both at the base of the cliff and
on the adjacent beach, whence they had been carried after being
washed out of the cliff. Some digging was attempted, and this
showed that the bones lay on, and were partly embedded in, the
surface of the clay, and that they were covered by a dozen or
fifteen feet of small gravel and sand. They were, however, in
such an exceedingly friable state, and the clay in which they
were partially embedded was so exceedingly tenacious, that
their removal proved impossible. We turned up one large
molar tooth in fairly-good condition, but otherwise we
obtained nothing except fragments. The tooth was, however,
sufficiently perfect to enable Mr. Newton to declare, without
hesitation, that it was that of a Mammoth. Most of the other
bones belonged, perhaps, to the same species; but, among
them, Mr. Newton found fragments of bones belonging to some
smaller animal, which, however, it was not possible to identify.
From the large number of bones, it seems as if more than
one mammoth must have bogged, or have perished otherwise, at
or near the spot in question.—Miller Christy, Chignal St. James,
Chelmsford.
1 These two molars were exhibited at the meeting of the Club on November 50th, 1907,
but were then pronounced by Mr. Newton to be those of the Straight-Tusked Elephant,
Elephas antiquus.—Ed.