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TABULAR VIEW OF BRITISH ALI.OLOBOPHOR.5i. 

 ^ Dendrobaena. 



I beg to thank my numerous correspondents for their favours, and to 

 inform them that my address in future will be "Fernbank, Cockermouth, 

 Cumberland." As I must conclude my Irish researches this year, I shall 

 be thankful to receive specimens from collectors at an early date, and 

 should be specially glad to have typical series from those parts of the 

 island which have not yet been worked. Living worms may be sent in 

 tin boxes with soft moss, and should be marked " NaTurai^ History 

 Specimens." 



(to be continued.) 



THE SCALP, COUNTY DUBLIN. 



BY G. H. KINAHAN, M.R.I. A. 



Shotovkr Hill is a godsend to the geological professors of 

 Oxford, as no one will ever be able to determine the exact 

 ages of its rocks ; and similarly the Scalp is a godsend to the 

 professors of geology in the Dublin schools, because, as to its 

 age and the process of its formation, there have been numerous 

 theories; and there will be, as long as there are successive 

 generations of geologists in Dublin. 



Jukes, to account for the transverse nearly N. and S. gashes 

 across the S.W. Cork ridges, suggested that at one time there 

 was high land to the northward, the drainage from which cut 

 N. and S. transverse valleys. This theory he seems, how- 

 ever, to have afterwards abandoned ; as, on more matured 



