346 REPORT— 1897. 



the Rev. G. F. Whidborne in the ' Monogr. Devonian Fauna, S. England,' 

 Pal. Soc, vol. iii. part 1, 1896, p. 6, pi. i., fig. 3. 



Within the last few months Ananda K. Coomary-Swamy, Esq., of 

 Warplesdon, has fortunately obtained a very interesting specimen of this 

 Uchinocaris from the Sloly mudstone, showing, on the two counterparts 

 of the little split slab, two individuals, each having the same characters as 

 the specimen first described in the ' Geological Magazine,' decade 3, vol. vi. 

 1889, p. 385, pi. xi., fig. 1. Though rather narrowed by oblique pressure, 

 the valves are equal in breadth to those of the first specimen. An addi- 

 tional feature of interest is seen in some body -segments, five in one 

 individual and three in the other. In each case, though the series of 

 segments is not complete either at beginning or- end, they are characteristic- 

 ally like those of Echinocaris, the distal edges bearing tubercles, the 

 equivalents of spinules. 



§ XII. 1896. Caryocaris. — In the 'Journal of Geology,' Chicago, 

 vol. iv. 1896, p. 85, Dr. R. R. Gurley has described Caryocaris as the 

 ' lateral appendages ' of the ' polypary ' of a Graptolite ! Caryocaris was 

 referred to by us in the First and Seventh Reports (for 1883 and 1891), 

 and was described in detail and figured in the ' Monogr. Brit. Palseoz. 

 Phyllocarida,' Pal. Soc, 1892, p. 89 et seq., pi. xiv., figs. 11-18. 



§ XIII. 1897. A new locality in Nova Scotia has been determined by 

 Sir William Dawson for Estheria Dawsoni, namely East Branch, East 

 River, Pictou County, Lower Carboniferous. Several casts and impres- 

 sions of small valves, not more than two millimetres long, occur on the 

 bed-planes of a dark-red Lower-Carboniferous shale. Former occurrences 

 of this species were noticed in our Report (Eleventh) for 1894. 



Irish Elk Remains. — Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor 

 W. Boyd Dawkins (Chairman), his Honour Deemster Gill, 

 Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, Rev. E. B. Savage, and Mr. P. M. 0. 

 Kermode (Secretary), appointed to examine the Conditions under 

 ivhich remains of the Irish Elk are found, in the Isle of Man. 



As the elk remains in the Isle of Man have only been met with in 

 curi'agh lands where it is not possible to excavate for them till the later 

 part of summer (unless in an unusually dry season), the Committee have 

 not been able to accomplish much before July 1, by which date the report 

 is presented. 



An attempt was made in the first jjlace to examine the spot at 

 Ballaugh where the skeleton, now set up in Edinburgh Museum, was 

 found in 1819.1 



This was in the Loughan-ruy, on the farm of Ballaterson, eastward of 

 the Parish Church, Ballaugh. It is one of several shallow depressions in 

 a drift gravel platform, and measures about 120 yards by 40. It lies 

 about 50 yards west of the Ballacrye Road, leading from the highway to 

 the seashore, and has a boundary fence across the pool at its southern 

 end (Ordnance Sheet, iv. 10 (825)). 



' See Professor Owen, British Association Beport, 1843, p. 237. 



