THE 



GEOLOGICAL RECORD 



FOE 1876. 



STRATIGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOLOGY. 



1. BRITISH ISLES. 



Adams, Prof. A. L. Report on the Exploration of the Shandon Cave. 

 Trans. R. Irish Acad. vol. xxvi. pt. v. pp. 187-230 ; plate and 2 

 woodcuts. 



This cave, about a mile from Dungarvan, co. Waterford, appears to 

 be the first Irish cavern in which Pleistocene remains have been found. 

 It was discovered and a collection of bones made (now deposited in the 

 Royal Dublin Society's Museum) in 1859. It was then thought to 

 have been cleared of bones; but in 1870 the author, with Prof. Hark- 

 ness, obtained several vertebra) of mammoth. The exploration described 

 was made in 1875. The cave is one of many in the Carboniferous 

 rocks of the Colligan valley. Quarrying operations had removed a great 

 part of the limestone- cliif, and the present entrance is many yards from 

 the original one. It was filled up with a limestone-breccia cemented 

 with stalagmite, on removing which many bones were found. Pene- 

 trating further, the men broke into a new chamber of some extent, but 

 low, in which also a number of bones were got. The united collections 

 of this and the former explorations have yielded remains of 16 species 

 of mammals and birds. The cave was a large shelter-shed, the resort 

 of many of the animals whose bones were found. The valleys of the 

 Colligan and Blackwater were probably favourite ground for Quaternary 

 animals ; and in all likelihood the rock cavities in which they abound 

 would yield a largo harvest if explored. E. T. H. 



Aitken, John. Observations on the Unequal Distribution of Drift on 

 opposite sides of the Pennine Chain, in the country about the source 

 of the River Calder, with suggestions as to the Causes which led 

 to that result, together with some Notices on the High-Levcl Drift 

 in the Upper Part of the Valley of the River Irwell. Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc. vol. xxxii. pp. 184-190; and Trans. Manch. Oeol. Soc, 

 vol. xiv. pp. .50-71. 



On the W. side of the Pennine Chain the Drift occurs as a wide- 

 spread deposit from the sea-level to 1 200 feet, whilst stray boulders aro 



1870. B 



