274 '^^^^ hish Naturalist, [November, 1900. 



MAMMALS. 



Natterer's Bat In Co. Antrim. 



Ou July 24th, 1900, 1 received from my friend, Mr. H. L. Orr, a Natterer's 

 Bat {Vesperli/ip Nattereri, Kulil.)- It was captured at Woodburu Gleu, 

 near Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, and I believe is the first recorded in this 

 county. 



Robert Patterson. 



Belfast. 



GEOLOGY. 



Irish Fossils. 



Two important monographs, dealing, the one partly, the other wholly, 

 with Irish fossil mollusca, progress in the publications of the Palaeonto- 

 graphical Societ)-. In vol. liii. (For 1899) Dr. Wheelton Hinde's " British 

 Carboniferous Lamellibranchiata " reaches its fourth part, the families 

 treated of being the Edmondida, Cyprinida, and Crassitellidce. To this 

 volume Dr. Foord has not been able to contribute the third part of his 

 " Carboniferous Cephalopoda of Ireland." The last published instalment 

 of this important work will be found in vol. Hi., and deals with the 

 straight and curved Orthoceras-Vi^^ forms. 



The foramlnlferal deposits of Dog's Bay, Co. Galway. 



An important paper on " Mechanically-formed Limestones from 

 Junagarh (Kathiawar) and other Localities," by Dr. J. W. Evans, F.G.S., 

 appears in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, vol. 

 Ivi., pp. 559-589 (August, T900). Junagarh is built thirty miles from the 

 sea, on a limestone formed of small rounded grains, which are really 

 *' organic calcareous particles derived from shallow- water organisms of 

 recent types. Each particle is ordinarily surrounded by an envelope of 

 deposited carbonate of lime." Dr. Evans, aided by Mr. F. Chapman's 

 microscopic investigation of the organisms, concludes that the limestone 

 has been formed by the action of wind, which has sifted out the smaller 

 organisms and grains from a shore-deposit, and has carried them to form 

 new beds inland. At that time (p. 573) Junagarh was probably close 

 against the shore. Dr. Evans supports his argument by a careful 

 description of the foraminiferal deposits of Dog's Bay on the south-west 

 coast of Co. Galway (p. 576 ; see also Mr. Chapman's account, p. 588), 

 drawn up from letters written by Mr. R. Welch, and from papers in the 

 Irish Naturalist, vols, iv., vii., and ix. Mr. Welch's observations, which 

 are always placed so freely at the disposal of other scientific workers, are 

 fittingly enshrined in a paper of such wide geological application. Dr. 

 Evans concludes b}' suggesting that some of our British oolitic deposits 

 were similarl)- accumulated by aeolian action. 



G. A. J. Coi,E. 



Dublin. 



