ON THE MOVEMENTS OF UNDERGROUND WATERS OF CRAVEN. 349 



The whole of the grant of iOl. has been spent upon the investigation, 

 and a small sum in addition. 



The experiments which have been carried out have indicated which 

 are the most suitable reagents for use in different cases, and it is conse- 

 quently hoped that future investigations will be carried out at rather less 

 cost than has been the case up to the present. 



The Committee asks to be reappointed, with a grant of 601. 



Irish Mh Remains. — Fourth Report of the Committee, consisting of 

 Professoi* W. Boyd Dawkins (Chairman), the late Deemster 

 Gill, Rev. Canon Savage, Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, and Mr. 

 P. M. C. K.EB.U0T)E(Sec7'etary), appointed to examine the Conditions 

 under ivhich Remains of the Irish Elk are found in the Isle of 

 Man. (JDravm up lyij the Secretary.') 



The Committee deeply regret the loss in October last of one of their 

 number, Deemster Gill, by whose pressing desire it was that the first 

 excavation was made near St. John's in 1897, when their efforts were 

 rewarded by the discovery of the perfect skeleton of ' Irish Elk ' now in 

 Castle Rushen.' 



The following paragraph was added to our last report after it was in 

 type, and the bone in question exhibited at our Dover meeting, but by 

 some accident it was omitted from the report as published, so we insert 

 it here. ' At a depth of about nine feet below the surface, at the bottom 

 of the silt (Bed C of our first report), and just above the white Chara- 

 marl, were found two fragments of bone, which were forwarded to out 

 Chairman, who has identified one as the scapula of Bos longifrons, and 

 in a letter to the Secretary adds : "This establishes the presence in the 

 island of an animal which was domesticated and introduced into the 

 British Isles in the Neolithic age. It proves that this deposit in 

 which it occurs is not earlier than the Neolithic age." ' 



At the end of October last another trench, 12 yards by 3, was cut 

 across the Loughan ruy, Ballaugh,^ parallel to and about 2 yards north- 

 west of that of last year. At a point about 4 yards from the north-east 

 end the marl was found at a depth of 10 feet 3 inches, just over a foot 

 deeper than in last year's trench, showing the dip towards the north-west. 

 In the peat, which extended from the surface to a depth of 3 feet, 

 were several pieces of timber, the largest being about 1 5 inches diameter at 

 the root : this bed rested upon silt, which extended to a further depth of 

 7 feet. It varied slightly in different parts, here more sandy, there moi'e 

 loamy, but was reaUy all one bed, the bottom of which consisted chiefly of 

 small fiat water-worn stones. At a depth in this bed of 6 feet, that is to 

 say, about 9 feet from the surface, was a layer of leaves about half an inch 

 thick. 



In this layer, on the south-east side of the trench, about 3 yards from 

 its south-west end, was found a fragment of antler, thickly covered with 

 the blue phosphate which appears to be confined to this leaf-deposit. All 

 around it were minute decayed fragments of bone or antler. 



Three or four yards away, at a depth of 10 feet from the surface, 



' See Report 189S. - Ibid., 1897. 



