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S. HAZZLEDINE WARREN.
Essex.—I would draw attention to the following published
records, as being worthy of re-examination :—
Blackwater Valley.—Boulder Clay is reported to occupy
the valley at certain places, and the Pleistocene River gravel
at Kelvedon and Witham is said to overlie this Boulder Clay (26).
Kelvedon-Tollesbury new railway sections.—Many years
after the above record, the Essex Field Club visited the excava-
tions in progress and Mr. Whitaker is reported to have found a
palaeolithic flake in the river gravel. Chalky Boulder Clay
was observed underlying the gravel (27).
Felstead-Stebbing district is also claimed to furnish
simliar evidence (28).
Chelmsford.—The river valley is cut through a plain of
Boulder Clay, into the underlying glacial gravel. Pleistocene
river deposits with Elephas, Rhinoceros and Hippopotamus occur
in the valley ; while the lowest bed of these deposits is in one
case a blue clay with chalk pebbles, evidently re-deposited
Boulder Clay which must, therefore, have been pre-existent (29).
Braintree.—Pleistocene brickearth with Elephas and palaeo-
lithic flakes flanks the Holocene alluvium of the valley. It
seems incredible that the Glacial Period, with its Boulder Clays,
etc., can come between them (30).
Great Yeldham.—Brickearth and gravel with Elephas,
Rhinoceros, etc., are stated to lie in a hollow in Boulder Clay,
unconnected with the present streams (31).
I give no personal endorsement upon the reliability of the
above-mentioned evidences, but they appeal to me as being
worthy of the attention of local workers.
CONSTRUCTIVE.
As previously hinted, it scarcely seems too rash to venture
a tentative correlation between the very cold Sicilian stage of
the Mediterranean, and the Weybourne Crag, as both alike are
very near to the border-line between the Pliocene and the
Pleistocene.
The Cromer Forest Bed is then an intermediate milder stage
distinctively characterized by Elephas meridionalis, Rhinoceros
etruscus, etc., which became either extinct, or very scarce,
before the Chellian stage. It has been suggested that these
earlier forms are derivatives from an older deposit, while Ele-
phas antiquus, etc, is contemporary. Examination of the
condition of the remains, particularly the mandibles with
the molars in place, shows to my mind that this suggestion is
untenable, and that all are equally contemporary.