Cork Cuvierian Society. 



front of the edge of the orbit. The second belongs to a more adult 

 ^female, sent, without the skin, from Para by Mr. Reginald Graham ; it 

 is considerably larger than the preceding, and there is scarcely any 

 visible impression in front of the orbit, only a slight concavity of the 

 general surface. This skull exactly resembles that of C. superciliarisy 

 which was in the Zoological Society's Gardens. 



'^^ Ears thickly covered with short hairs ; skull with a very deep 

 ' jj(. oblong suborbital pit ; face short ; grinders large. West coMt 



— 5. CoAssus PuDu. The Venada. i^j ^^ ./i .A .O 



•^I'iFur rufous, blackish in front and darker behind;^ atrcTdri'tWfcrt'i- 

 liead and lower part of the leg ; hairs ringed, of cheeks and neck grey- 

 ish, of forehead and ears bright rufous ; ears short ; tail very short. 

 Cervus humilis, Bennett, P. Z. S. 1831, 27. fern. ; Sundev. Pecora, 

 ^0. — C. rw/2«5, Wagner, Supp. iy. -—Capr a Pudu, Molina. — Chevreuil, 

 foeppig, Froriep's Notiz. 1829; Ferussac, Bull. Sci. xix. db. — Cer- 

 viis Pudu, Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat. 1846, 90.— Antilope {MasHma) 

 Temmamazama, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 291? '^' 



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April 7, 1852. — C. B. Newenham, Esq., presented to the Sociefy 

 a slab exhibiting fossil casts of foot-steps. •- >^:,> '>'^- p 



^^ Dr. Haines wished to direct particular attention to tl^e flag now 

 laid on the table by Mr. Newenham, first, in order that due merit 

 might be rendered to the discoverer, and in the second place, to indi- 

 cate the character, great interest, and importance of the discovery. 

 Mr. Newenham' s attention was drawn to this flag, lately laid down on 

 one of our pathways, when walking over it in a shower of rain, which 

 rendered the track more visible. All persons present may not be 

 aware of the value of data which carry us back, step by step, to the 

 knowledge of the primaeval states of animal life on the earth. This 

 is, Dr. Haines said, he believed, the first observation of the foot- 

 prints of the higher classes of animals made in Ireland. The first 

 discovery of foot-marks was that of reptiles in the lower part of the New 

 Red Sandstone in Scotland ; then they became known as common in the 

 New Red Sandstone of England and the continent, and in a part of 

 the same formation the foot-marks of birds were found in America. 

 Here we now have, the occurrence of foot-prints in a rock of greater 

 age, in this slab of millstone-grit from Kilrush, county of Clare, from 

 whence the flagging-material of our streets is obtained. Dr. Haines 

 went on to state, that some years since he had exhibited to this 

 Society and to the British Association some very beautiful and new 

 fossil casts referable to Annelids from this same rock, and pointed 

 out some traces which might possibly be the foot-markings of a crus- 

 taceous animal. Since then those flags have presented us with nume- 

 rous fossil impressions, but until now, none referable to the track of 

 an animal of a high order. On this flag there axe seven pair of de- 



