30 UNDEVELOPED RESOURCES OF MARINE FISHERIES. 
for if they were to interfere at the present time with the fishing 
industry such a turmoil would be raised that it might even lead 
to a change of government. Immense sums of money are in- 
vested in the fleet of magnificent trawlers which scour the seas 
for thousands of miles to provide fish for the million, and this 
financial interest is so wide that it would be as difficult to control 
by legislation as the drink traffic. It seems, then, that we must 
just wait until a national calamity arrives, which will demon- 
strate beyond all doubt what a blind policy has been pursued 
for years by those who take fish from the sea. 
Cup AND Rinc MarKINGS IN WEsT KILBRIDE. 
By Mr JouHn Corrie. 
During a recent holiday spent at Ardrossan I had an oppor- 
tunity of examining for the second time some remarkably fine 
cup and ring markings which are to be found in the parish of 
West Kilbride. The best defined markings occur upon an out- 
crop of old red sandstone rock on the lands of Hopeton. Other 
markings, similar in character, but less clearly cut, were to be 
met with upon the “Diamond Craig,’’ near Fairlie. Many of 
the markings take the form of cups, some solitary and some in 
groups. A number of the cups are surrounded by rings, and 
some have a gutter or grove running up from them. (Typical 
examples of the different forms were shown on sheets, which Mr 
Corrie exhibited to the meeting. One showed a cup surrounded 
by two concentric rings with a groove running out from the 
inner ring.) Close to the outcrop of rock at Hopeton there is 
the outline of a stone circle, and near the same spot a stone 
hammer and an arrow point of flint were found some years ago. 
The significance of these curious sculpturings I do not propose 
to touch upon. Valuable notes upon the subject will be found 
in the published transactions of the Society, and Professor 
Simpson’s work is probably upon the shelves of the library. I 
have only to add that I have found no traces of these markings 
in my own district. Possibly their absence may be explained by 
the intractable nature of our Glencairn whinstone. 
