102 RETORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



3 Ailsa Craig Biebeekite-eurite, 7 quartz, 2 flint, 1 chalk, 3 basalt, 1 

 red sandstone, 2 quartzite, 1 bole, 1 aphanite, 10 camptonite, 8 granite 

 (Donegal type), 7 granite (Newtownards), 2 weathered sandstone, 1 

 grit (Ballygowan). The prevailing directions of the parent rock 

 were north and north-west. 



Magheralin.- — Chalk quarry one-third of a mile north-east of Mag- 

 heralin village. Unstratified red boulder-clay, about 150 feet above 

 sea-level. Subjacent rock, chalk. Out of 131 boulders counted, the 

 following erratics were noted: 34 basalt, 6 dolerite, 1 clay ironstone, 



3 grit, 6 granite (similar to that of Barnesmore, co. Donegal), 1 granite 

 (North Tyrone?), 9 mica schist, 1 eurite (Tornamoney), 11 quartzite, 



4 pebbles Old Bed conglomerate (Cushendun), 5 quartz, 1 porphyry 

 (Cushendall), 2 diorite, 12 crushed diorite, 7 hornblende rock, 1 elvan, 

 1 Lower Carboniferous sandstone, 1 crushed felsite, 7 gabbro, 2 Lower 

 Carboniferous conglomerate, 2 eurite (North Tyrone). Foraminifera 

 found in the boulder clay. 



Co. Antrim. 



Kilcoan, Island-mag ee. — Chalk quarry. Bed unstratified boulder- 

 clay. Few erratics; basalt largely preponderated, but 2 lias, 1 eurite, 

 and 1 dolerite were also noted. At one end of the quarry, where the 

 boulder-clay had been cleared off the top of the chalk, a fine striated sur- 

 face was exposed. Two sets of striae were observed, running 8. o° W. 

 and E. and W. respectively. So far as could be made out from the 

 surface, tbe striae from the west were subsequent and superimposed 

 on those made by the ice moving from the north. 



England. 



Hull (1 ri)lngical Society. 



The members of the local Boulder Committee have done a fair 

 amount of field work during the past year, but have nothing strikingly 

 new to record. 



Filey. — On the beach at Filey, a few yards north of Hunmanby 

 Gap, a boulder of Bunter sandstone, 30 yards long, was noted, em- 

 bedded in the glacial clays which form the beach in this locality. Mr. 

 B. M. Bobson reports a boulder of garnetiferous schist, between one 

 and two tons in weight, at an elevation of 142 feet, three-quarters 

 of a mile west of Filey. 



Holderness. — In June Dr. U. Milthers, of the Danish Geological 

 Survey, visited this country and spent several days on the East coast 

 of Yorkshire examining the boulders. He was much impressed by the 

 great display of Scandinavian boulders in South Holderness, chiefly 

 from the Christiania district. One result of his visit will probably be 

 the identification of some further Scandinavian rocks in East Yorks. 



South Ferriby, Lines. — Mr. T. Sheppard, F.G.S., records an 

 exposure of the clays beneath the Bed Chalk on the south Humber 

 shore at South Ferriby. In these are embedded a number of large 

 cake-shaped nodules, all of which are glacially striated on their upper 

 surfaces, the striae being from east to west, parallel with the old course 

 of the Humber estuary. Close by, an exposure in the solid lower chalk 



