ON EXCAVATIONS AT PORTSTEWART, ETC. 



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List of Naturalists, &c. — continued. 



April 

 Mai 



Juni 



21 Dr. Keller, Zurich 



29 Prof. Kossmann, Heidelberg 



1 K. Pills, Gent . 



6 Prof, van Beneden, Liittich 



11 Prof. Todaro, Kom 



20 Dr. Hubrecht, Leiden 



21 Anatom. Institut, Halle 



21 S. Brogi, Siena . 



24 Prof. Keitimeyer, Basel 



20 Prof. Puiy Lankester, London 



20 Prof. Berlin, Amsterdam . 



20 Prof. Harting, Utrecht 



23 W. Kitchin Parker, London 



Brought forward 

 . Coelenteraten 

 . Physalia . 

 . Spong., Anthoz 

 . Alle Classen 

 . Salpen 

 . Fische 

 . Mollusk., Wiirm., Crust 



Coelent. 

 . Alle Classen 

 . Fische, Coelent 

 . Eier von Cephalop. 

 . Fische, Mollusk., Wiirm 



Coelent. 

 . Alle Classen 



Lire 



2,017 



110 



30 

 196 

 278 



23 

 135 



47 

 33 



147 



125 

 916 



Embryonen von Hippocampus 17 



Summa 



4,079 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Major-General Lane Fox, Mr. 

 William James Knowles, Dr. A. Leith Adams, and the Rev. Dr. 

 Grainger, for the purpose of conducting Excavations at Port- 

 stewart, and elsewhere in the North of Ireland. Drawn up by 

 Mr. Knowles (Secretary). 



The present report records a continuation of work hitherto carried on by 

 the Secretary of this Committee, on the subject of which several papers 

 have been read by him at previous meetings of the British Association. 

 Up till the meeting of last year the work was chiefly confined to surface 

 exploration. Several large pits had been found among the sand hills at 

 Portstewart, and other places along the northern coast of Ireland, to 

 contain large quantities of flint implements, hammer-stones, cores, and 

 flakes, mixed up with numerous broken and split bones and teeth, 

 which were supposed to be the remains of animals which had been used 

 as food by the flint workers. It required very little attention and study 

 to perceive that the pits had been excavated within a comparatively recent 

 period, that the wind had but lately removed the sand which had previously 

 filled the hollows, and left the flints and other objects in the bottom, 

 because they were too heavy to be blown away. These objects had 

 evidently been previously imbedded in a layer of dark colour, remains of 

 which were visible all around the sides of the pits, but on which there 

 remains in places undisturbed a covering of sand varying in thickness 

 from 10 to 50 feet. This layer has been generally cut through where 

 pits are formed, and the remains found in the bottom have gradually 

 reached a somewhat lower level than the place formerly occupied by 



