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MAMMALS. 



Irish Bats. 



Having just read Dr. Alcock's paper on Bats in the current number of 

 the Irish naturalist, I turned up some random notes as to the dates of 

 their appearance here after hibernation and at other times. In 1884 I 

 saw one for the first time on 7th April ; in 1885 on 3rd April ; and in 1888 

 three or four on 14th April ; in 1896 I saw two on 5th February ; and in 

 1897 one on 19th February. In the latter year, 1897, I saw what I have 

 noted as a " very large one " on 1st November; two or three on iSth 

 December ; and one on Christmas Day. 



I have not any notes since ; and in none of the above instances was 

 there any attempt to record the species. 



Holywood, Co. Down. R. Lxoyd Patterson. 



Long-Eared Bat In Co. Waterford. 



With reference to Dr. Alcock's note {ante p. 52), I write to say that the 

 Ivong-eared Bat is common about here. A good many fly into my study 

 during summer nights, when I have the windows open to attract moths. 

 I have caught them repeatedly in my butterfly net, but liberated all with 

 the exception of one, which was preserved and mounted for use by Mr. 

 Williams. The length of the ears in this species is marvellous. No other 

 mammal I believe can compare with it in this respect. They must be 

 seen to be believed. 



Coolfin, Co. Waterford. Wh,uam W. FeEmyinG. 



GEOLOGY. 

 Glacial Geology of Kerry. 



During the Field Club Union visit to Kerry last July a most interesting 

 day was spent in the district affected by the bog-burst of 1896, which lies 

 to the north and north-west of Rathmore station. The celebrated 

 quarry still shows a dark stain left by the peaty flood which surged 

 against the precipitous face of Carboniferous limestone, subsiding to a 

 lower level, and choking up the quarry, which was subsequently cleaned 

 after much expense and trouble. The limestone is covered by a deposit 

 of boulder clay about 12 feet deep, resting on a deeply water-worn surface. I 

 would be glad to know if this is usual in the limestone districts in 

 Ireland, as in our north-eastern district we invariably find glaciated 

 rock underneath our boulder-clays. The short time available only 

 permitted a very cursory examination of the deposit, and the collection 

 of a few boulders from the face of the section. Amongst these are some 

 specimens identified by Mr. Phillips as the rhyolite-andesite of Crohane 

 Mountain and Loo Bridge, obtained by him in situ on the same day on 

 which we found it as an erratic at the quarry some twenty miles N.N.E. 

 of the parent locality. This is an interesting corroboration of Mr. 

 Maxwell Close's observation (" General Glaciation of Ireland," in Journ. 

 R.G.S.L, i., 226, 1867), that the striae of the Kenmare district indicate 

 two separate ice-flows, one passing down the Kenmare Valley, the other 

 up the Roughty Valley by Kilgarvan and Headford towards Killarney. 



Belfast. Sydney M. Thompson. 



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