Transactions of the Kansas 



Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Science. Art and Belles-lettres, Mad 

 ison. Vol 3. 



Proceedings of the Poughkeepsie Society of Natural Science. Vol 1, part i. 



Archives of Science and Transactions of the Orleans Co. (Vt.) Society Natural 

 History. Vol 1. 



Bremen Natural Science Society. Vol. 3. part 4 ; vol. 4, parts 2 and 3, and 

 three quarto pamphlets on Meteorological subjects. 



Royal University of Norway. Fourteen pamphlets, 1,000 octavo pages, with 

 many plates. 



Topographical Survey of the Adirondacks One volume, octavo. From Hon. 

 Verplanck Colvin. 



Field and Forest. Three volumes, and current numbers to date. 



Science Observer. One volume, and paits of current volume to date. 



Psyche. Cambridge Entomoh^gical Club. Current volume to date. 



Vermont Medical Journal. Vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. 



Polytechnic Review. Current volume to date. 



Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America, by Prof. Marsh. 

 Pamphlet. 



Of the Museum no statements need be made, except that it is poorly displayed 

 for want of space in the Rooms of the State Board of Agriculture, and that a proper 

 expansion and better display of the reallj-^ valuable geological collection can not be 

 made until after the building of the Capitol extension, when we hope to see it 

 arranged in perfect order and supplemented by collections of the plants, insects and 

 animals of Kansas. 



E. A. POPENOE, Secretary. 



NOTES ON GIANT'S CAUSEWAY AND FINGAL'S 



CAVE. 



By Prof. C. D. Merrill, Washburn College, Topeka. 



In the month of July, in company with an appreciative companion, it was my 

 fortune to be at the little watering place of Portrush, about the middle x»f the 

 line of the northern coast of Ireland. We took a jaunting car, with a good-natured 

 Irishman as driver, and wheeling rapidly along a very picturesque road that over- 

 hangs the sea — the seething bottom of the Devil's Punch Bowl — past rounded hills 

 and splintered cliffs still red with the marks of ancient fire — we came, after 

 traversing eight miles, to that remarkable object of nature, the Giant's Causeway. 



This part of the Irish coast is a succession of promontories and recessions, form- 

 ing vast amphitheatres in the beetling cliffs, that from a height of three hundred 

 feet look down upon the sea. Through one of these amphitheatres we descend to 

 the shore. On the right, vertical in the side of the cliU", stands a group of basalt 

 columns with an exposed front forty feet high, known as the Organ. A little 

 further on at the extreme point of the right promontory are the Chimneys — three 

 tall groups of columns forty-five feet high, and entirely separate from the surround- 

 ing rock. On all sides of these amphitheatres, for a distance of six or seven miles 

 along the coast, basalt columns crop out from the cliffs in irregular masse?. 



