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ONE of the most effective services which NATURE does for the cause of science is to enable students who live far apart to exchange ideas in its correspondence columns. May I be allowed to ask a question of some interest, perhaps, to others besides myself? It is a singular fact that we probably know less of the sub-aërial conditions prevailing in so-called Phocene times than we do of those of most geological horizons. The marine Mollusca of this age have been preserved in large numbers and in many places, but the remains of the land fauna are singularly sporadic and broken.
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HOWORTH, H. Were the Elephant and Mastodon contemporary in Europe?. Nature 37, 463–464 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037463b0
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