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remains of mammoth (Elephas primigenius), 2 sp. of [[underlined]] Rhinoceros [[/underlined]], etc. In gravels they also find Bos. He also displayed specimens of loess, some gray and some yellow, from Hungary, & with it were samples manifestly not aeolian loess. 

Most of the samples are yellow, - a light yellow. Some samples of secondary loess, with gravel, etc., appear: others are heavy, brownish. Also an occasional sample, as XIV-1903V-Tapláry, of gray loess. This is only in layers, low down, - between loess and next stratum. Also XII-Györ. 
Some samples are sandy, rougher, 

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and certainly not like loess. These are always in lowest part. 
My guide said there are long stretches of loess (?) which are without shells, and they contain pebbles (small) and sand. 
These loesses also contain lime nodules (some in museum), many of them large. They look like ours. 
There are also samples similar to our heavier yellow loess. Some of the gray loess in the Museum has iron streaks and tubes. 
Along the Danube there is an upper reddish loess, - I was told. There is [[insertion]] ^ a [[/insertion]] samples of gray loess from Muzsla. He says loess is