232 The hish Nahualut, November, 



moth, Irish Klk, Red Deer, and Wolf. Among the smaller Mammals 

 the bones and teeth of the Arctic I^emming {Dicrostonyx torquatus) and of 

 the Scandinavian Lemming (Z^ww«.s- /^///w/zi^) are very abundant. They 

 may have been brought in b}' the Arctic Fox. 



No human remains or implements were found, except parts of modern 

 iron tools and charred wood, indicating the presence of man only within 

 quite recent times 



In so far as Ireland is not generally believed to have been joined to 

 England by land in Glacial or post-Glacial times, the presence in the 

 country of the Mammoth, Irish Elk, and Hyaena apparently confirms 

 the opinion, arrived at from geological evidence, that Castlepook Cave 

 mast be a pre-Glacial one. This view is supported by the absence of 

 many animals from Ireland which seem to have made their first 

 appearance in England during the Glacial period. 



PROBABLE CRETACEOUS AND CAINOZOIC OUTLINES OF THE 



COAST OF CO. KERRY. 



BY PROFESSOR GRENVII^IyE A. J. COI.K. 



The dredgings made since 1901 by the Fisheries Branch of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland have amply 

 supported the conclusions then put forward,^ to the effect that the 

 geological structure of the sea-floor off western Ireland can be deduced 

 from a study of the stones lying on it from point to point. The most 

 interesting recent results are the discoveiy of abundant flints, chalk, 

 glauconitic chalk, and two specimens of Milioline limestone in dredgings 

 off the coast of Kerr}'. Mr. Worth's observations in 1908 on similar 

 materials in the English Channel thus receive confirmation from areas 

 tnuch further west, and it is clear that both the Cretaceous and F/Ocene 

 seas extended to an unknown distance in that direction, though we can 

 trace their boundaries fairly on the north-west. Many of the flints of 

 southern 1 1 eland may have been derived from local strata rather than 

 from ice-borne drift. 



ON DOPPLERITE FROM SLOOGAN BOG, CO. ANTRIM. 



BY R. WEI,CH, MR. I. A. 



As early as 181 2, a black, gelatinous-looking substance was noted in 

 Irish l)Ogs by the late Sir Richard Griffith, who mentioned it in his 

 Report to the Bog Commission. Later, Mr. Moss (Registrar of the Royal 

 Dublin Society) noticed a jet-like substance in dried peat, which he now 

 believes was the .same substance. In 1903, Mr. Robert Bell, a member 

 of the Belfast Naturali.sts' Field Club, found a black, jelly-like ma.ss 

 occurring as veins in the lower or black-peat of Sloggan Bog, Co. 



^ Cole and Crook, Report on Fisheries of Ire/and for 1901. 



