Title: The Miocene Beds of the Victoria Nyanza and the Geology of the Country between the Lake and the Kisii Highlands
Abstract:I. Introduction. In the winter of 1911 I undertook a journey to the Victoria Nyanza on behalf of the British Museum, in order to investigate some beds of Miocene age, discovered in 1909 by Mr. G. R. C...I. Introduction. In the winter of 1911 I undertook a journey to the Victoria Nyanza on behalf of the British Museum, in order to investigate some beds of Miocene age, discovered in 1909 by Mr. G. R. Chesnaye while prospecting near Karungu on the eastern coast of the lake. He discovered fragments of bones and of Chelonian carapaces in low cliffs capped with basalt, situated a few miles to the southeast of Karungu. Mr. C. W. Hobley, C.M.G., H.M. Provincial Commissioner, who has made important researches in the natural history and anthropology of British East Africa, immediately realized the significance and importance of the discovery, and induced the late Mr. D. B. Pigott, a Government official, to undertake a search for further specimens. As the result of his efforts, he forwarded to Mr. Hobley a portion of the left ramus of the mandible, some teeth, and the patella and calcaneum of a Dinotherium , together with fragmentary remains indicating the presence of a small Rhinoceros ( Aceratherium ), Trionyx , Testudo , and some Crocodilian remains. Mr. Hobley presented these fossils to the British Museum, and Dr. C. W. Andrews, F.R.S., described and figured the remains of the Dinotherium , which he named D. hobleyi , in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1911 (pp. 943–45 & pl. xlviii), regarding the species as very similar to D. cuvieri Kaup, of the Lower and Middle Miocene of France, especially characteristic of the Burdigalian horizon. Unfortunately, nothing was known of the circumstances of the discovery, for Mr. PigottRead More