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75, 76; Sternb. part v. and vi. page 79; Gopp. page 212. 

 Otopteris crenulata, Brong. Hist. i. tab. 78, fig. 1. Coal 

 measures, Terasson, France. Alpine oolile, Petit-cceur. 

 minor, Brong. Prod, page 60 ; Hist. i. page 253, tab. 



77; Sternb. part v. and vi. page 79; Gopp. page 213. — 

 Coal measures, Terasson ; St. Etienne. 



Schlotheirnii, Brong. Hist. i. page 256, tab. 78, fig. 5 ; 



Sternb. part v. and vi. page 79; Gopp. page 213. Neu- 

 ropteris nummularia, Sternb. part iv. page 17. Filicites 

 osmundceformis, Schloth. Petref. page 412, tab. 3, fig. 5. — 

 Coal measures, Manebaeh, Germany. 



— obtvsa, Brong. Prod, page 60 ; Hist, i. page 255, tab. 

 78, fig. 3, 4; Gopp. page 214. Coal measures, Terasson, 

 France. Alpine oolite, Col d'Ecuelle, near Chamonix. 

 Lindleyana, Sternb. part v. and vi. page 78; Gopp. 



page 214, tab. 1, fig. 7, 8, var. £. Odont. obtusa, Lindl. & 

 Hutt. i. tab. 40. Coal measures, Leebotwood; /3, Silesia. 

 — Bergeri, Gopp. page 215. Lias, Coburg, Saxony. 



(To he continued?) 



Art. V. — Notes on Irish Natural History, more especially Ferns. 

 By Edward Newman, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



The most trivial notes on any branch of Natural History are 

 always so acceptable to myself, that I am perhaps too confi- 

 dent in supposing that my own careless memoranda may be 

 pleasing to others. On the 28th of last June I landed at 

 Newry, and, with knapsack on back, marched off in a north- 

 erly direction, to see with my own eyes a country of which 

 Englishmen in general know something less than of Kamkat- 

 cha or South Australia. From Belfast to Fairhead I coasted 

 the county of Antrim, with the exception of a few miles ; and 

 although I found nothing particularly striking, yet the fine 

 sea-views, commanding the coast of Scotland, the Isles of 

 Arran, Bute, Jura, Islay, &c, and the singular Ailsa Craig, 

 amply repay the pedestrian for his time. Fairhead is really 

 grand ; the basalt is irregularly columnar, quite perpendicu- 

 lar, and of great height: during the lapse of ages it seems 

 gradually to have given way, vast disrupted masses being 

 crowded and jammed together below the cliff, in wild and 

 wonderful confusion. The height of the cliff is about 650 

 feet above the sea ; of this, a portion measuring perhaps 300 

 feet is perfectly perpendicular, the remainder is a mass of 

 fragments decreasing in height till it reaches the sea. 



