IV.—Note on some Fossil Remains of Emys lutaria from the Norfolk Coast

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The remains of a Tortoise from that peculiar fluviatile deposit on the Norfolk coast, known as the “Mundesley River Bed,” have lately been placed in my hands for determination by Mr. C. W. Ewing, of Eaton, near Norwich, and, although the European freshwater tortoise has already been recorded as occurring in a fossil condition in Norfolk (Prof. A. Newton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1862, ser. 3, vol. x. p. 224), yet it seemed desirable that some notice should be taken of this most interesting discovery. The specimen was obtained by Mr. Ewing from the peaty bed in the cliff section at Mundeseley, so long ago as 1863; but it was only quite recently that it was for the first time exhibited, at one of the meetings of the Norwich Science Gossip Club.