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Kinahan, G. H. On the Kocks of the Ballymoney Series, Co. "Wex- 

 ford. Trans. Manch. Geol. Soc. vol. xiv. part vii. pp. 145-151. 



Dislocated Cambrian rocks, more or less denuded and metamorphosed, 

 are overlain unconformably by the Cambro-Silurians, consisting at the 

 base of Caradoc and Llandeilo grits, shales, and slates, overlain by the 

 Ballymoney Series ; greenish shales and slates, seen half a mile x^. of 

 Courtown harbour, and limestones and ferruginous grits weathering 

 into masses of ochre. C. E. D. 



. The Lagoons of the South-East Coast of Ireland. Proc. Inst. 



Civ. Eng. vol. xliv. pp. 204-218, pi. 7 (charts). 



Describes the lagoons and the formation of the bars or banks of 



-(Eolian Drift that separate them from the open sea. States the reasons 



for the failures of the attempted intaking of some of the mud-lands, and 



gives suggestions how the defects might be remedied. W. T. 



Holiday Rambles in the West of Ireland. The Plants and 



Eocks of Aran. Sci. Goss. no. 142, pp. 222, 223. 



Most of the surface is bare limestone, with thin beds of shale and 



clay, causing springs. The sea on the W. side has thrown up large 



blocks of rock. There are also erratic blocks. W. W. 



[ .] (Nahanik.) Geology of Irish Salmon Rivers — The Ovoca 



and its Tributaries. Land and Water, June 24. 



Describes the river-basin, and shows that the courses of the different 

 streams occupy the lines of old fissures along dislocations, as is common 

 in S.E. Ireland ; there is a short description of the rocks of the area 

 and of the Drifts, including the auriferous sands of the tributaries of 

 the Aughrim river. G. H. K. 



. [G. H. K.] Subwealden Exploration. Land and Water, 



b 



Oct. 7, page 251. 

 Points out, and represents by a diagram, that the bore-hole may be 

 in a gorge in the older rocks, filled with the newer rocks, and conse- 

 quently a fictitious thickness of the newer rocks seems to exist, while 

 if the bore-hole had been put down a few miles away their real thickness 

 would appear. G. H. K. 



Lapworth, Charles. Llandovery Rocks in the Lake District. Geol. 

 Marj. dec. ii. vol. iii. pp. 477, 478. 



Argues from the evidence of Graptolite groups that the Coniston 

 Mudstones are of L. Llandovery age or older. Beds with Coniston 

 Mudstone forms are classed as U. Llandeilo by the Scotch, and as Bala 

 by the Irish Geological Surveys. W. H. D. 



Latham, Richard. On the Sinking of the Lye Cross' Pits from the 

 summit of the Rowley Basaltic Hills. Coll. Guard, vol. xxxi. 

 p. 182. 

 Read at Meeting of S. Staffordshire and E. Worcestershire Inst, of 

 Mining Engineers. 



