period when these mammals were living, Malta must have been united to the African continent.
Note by Dr. A. Leith Adams, F.G.S.
I have received from Dr. Carnana the tooth he supposes may belong to an Hippopotamus, and find it is a fragment of a germ true molar of one or other of the pigmy Elephants. The fish-teeth are also in my possession, and referable to Sharks of the genus Lamna or Oxyrhina, and are very probably Miocene, and derived from the rocks in which the Shantiin fissure exists, having been washed into it along with the soil and other organic remains. Similar teeth were found in Zebbug Cave by Captain Spratt, F.G.S. ; and I discovered allied Sharks' teeth in another ossiferous cavern in the island.
Discussion.
Prof. Busk remarked that there was no doubt that three species of elephants had lived and bred in Malta.
Capt. Spratt said that, it appeared to him, the chief interest of the communication lay in the greater comparative abundance of the larger species of elephant in the new locality.
