K&^ttl Society. 273 



Egyptian Mammy having been wholly deprived of the wax by 

 ebullition mad maceration, looked no longer like its mummified 

 fellow, but resembled a preparation of a recent specimen of that 

 part, and soorv began to putrefy. After the reading of the paper, 

 Dr. Graniville exhibited the dissected Mummy and its various 

 parts, together with the bandages with which it had been in- 

 vested, drawings of its outer case, &g,, and his own imitative pre- 

 parations, in the Society's Library; thus illustrating the details of 

 his communication. 



May 19. — Professor Duckland communicated a paper, 0/t //*e 

 Fossil Elk of Ireland; by Thomas Weaver, Esq. M.R.I. A., 

 F.G.S., &c. 



During Mr. Weaver's recent avocations in the North of Ireland, 

 he had met with an opportunity of determining some facts, shew- 

 ing that the remains of the gigantic Elk which have been found 

 in various parts of that country, are not of antediluvian origin ; 

 but that the animal lived and died in the countries where its 

 remains are now found. Similar facts had been ascertained in 

 the West of Ireland, at about the same time, by the Rev. Mr. 

 Maunsell, Archdeacon of Limerick ; particulars of which had been 

 communicated to the Royal Dublin Society, and would form, Mr. 

 Weaver hoped, a distinct publication on the subject : but he gave 

 some account of them in the present paper, because they directly 

 confirmed his own deductions. 



Mr. Weaver's researches were made in the county of Down, 

 which presents hills of from 300 or 400 feet in height, consisting 

 of alternate beds of clay-slate and fine grained greywacke, traver- 

 sed by many contemporaneous veins of calcareous spar and quartz, 

 and also intersected by some true metalliferous rake veins. Be- 

 tween two of these hills, at about four miles distance from the 

 town of Dundrum, is the bog of Kilmegan, in which (he facts 

 were observed. It appears to have been a lake, which has been 

 gradually filled up by the growth and decay of successive races of 

 aquatic plants, and the consequent formation of peat ; but on ac- 

 count of the remaining water, it had never been worked as a 

 peat-bog until the present Marquis of Downshire drained it by 

 means of a level. The peat was found to rest upon a bed of marie, 



