572 report — 1878. 



and their associated companions being found in such hecatombs, while, as is familiar 

 to travellers, the remains of modern elephants which have died in the forests are 

 seldom found. This accounts also largely for the flesh of the huge beasts not 

 having been torn and eaten by their carnivorous contemporaries. This conclusion 

 seems at issue with much modern geological speculation, which rather shrinks from 

 postulating catastrophes, but it nevertheless appears to be inevitable. 



6. Recent Additions to the List of Irish Lepidoptera. By R. W. Sinclair. 



7. A Wryneck obtained in Ireland was exhibited by A. E. Jacob. 



8. Germinating specimens of Cardamine pratensis ivere exhibited by Dr. 



John Price. 



