. Geological magazine. set of prehistoric Human Remains. Price £11 18s. Q>d. 5. A collection of Bone and other Carvings from Caves, etc. (50 specimens). Price £10 lOs. 6. Eleven Teeth and left humerus of the Pigmy Elephants of Malta. Price £2 5s. 7. Rhytina gigas. Cranium, lower jaw, and 19 parts of skeleton. Price £12 12s. 8. Elginia, Geikia, Gordonia from the Elgin Sandstone (15 casts). Price £6 12s. 6^^. 9. Nototherium Mitchelli (5 casts). Price £5 9*. 6^?. 10. Diprotodon Australis (14 casts). Price £15. 11. Megaladapis Madagascariensis (5 casts). Price £2 3s. (td. 12. Type-specimens of


. Geological magazine. set of prehistoric Human Remains. Price £11 18s. Q>d. 5. A collection of Bone and other Carvings from Caves, etc. (50 specimens). Price £10 lOs. 6. Eleven Teeth and left humerus of the Pigmy Elephants of Malta. Price £2 5s. 7. Rhytina gigas. Cranium, lower jaw, and 19 parts of skeleton. Price £12 12s. 8. Elginia, Geikia, Gordonia from the Elgin Sandstone (15 casts). Price £6 12s. 6^^. 9. Nototherium Mitchelli (5 casts). Price £5 9*. 6^?. 10. Diprotodon Australis (14 casts). Price £15. 11. Megaladapis Madagascariensis (5 casts). Price £2 3s. (td. 12. Type-specimens of British Inf. 0. Ammonites (9 specimens). Price £1 17s. Qd. 13. Massospondylus, Pachyspondylus, Leptospondylus (39 specimens). Price £4 10s. 14. Crowns of Tipper Molar Teeth of Ungulates, illustrating the lines of differentiation, etc. (55 specimens). Price £5. 15. Meiolania Oweni and M. platyceps (5 casts). Price £9. All details will be found in R. F. DAMONS full list ofcasts, forwarded free on THE GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. DECADE V. VOL. II. No. XII.—DECEMBER, 1905. OK,IC3-I3:srjL3L .^TIOLES. I.—Notes on the Geological History of the Victokia Falls.^, Lamplugh, IT is difficult for anyone standing on the brink of the Chasm,after having seen the placid flow of the Zambesi above theFalls, to believe that the fissure into which the river is so suddenlyprecipitated has been formed gradually by the action of the riveritself, and not by some great convulsion during which the verycrust of the earth was rent. The narrowness of the abyss, thestrange zigzags along which the tumultuous waters rush after theirfirst great plunge, the mystery which has long surrounded thefurther course of the river after it swings away out Of sight amongits forbidding precipices, and the knowledge that the rocks acrosswhich it plunges are of volcanic origin, are all factors that haveaided the illusion. Hence it is not surprising to find that theexplanatio


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