On the old Rfit) SANDStONfi ROCKS OF KILTORCAN, IRELAND. Il7 



^he Old Red Sandstone Rocks of Kiltorcan, Ireland. — Report of 

 the Committee, consisting of Professor Grenville Cole 

 (Chairman), Professor T. Johnson {Secretary), Dr. J. W. 

 Evans, Dr. E. Kidston, and Dr. A. Smith Woodward. 



The Committee has spent the sum of five pounds from the unexpended 

 balance of the grant made in 1913, and has returned the remaining 

 balance to the General Treasurer. The grant of lOZ. made in 1914 

 was not called on, since the work for which it was specially intended, 

 excavation at Tallow Bridge, proved impracticable, owing to local 

 difficulties. The regular working of the Kiltorcan quarry^ however, 

 makes it desirable to secure good specimens as they are turned out, 

 since the owner is the local contractor for roads, and the stone and 

 plant-remains become alike used in making the Kilkenny highways. 

 Short of actual purchase and preservation of the historic site, the 

 alternative is to pay the owner to watch the work as it goes on and 

 to set aside the more interesting material. He has shown a ready 

 appreciation of the requirements of the Committee. 



Hence the Committee asks for its continuance and a grant of ten 

 pounds for the excavation-work at Kiltorcan, and for specimens obtain- 

 able in 1915-1916. 



The Committee would be glad to be allowed to send, carriage 

 forward, duplicate material of Archceopteris , Bothrodendron, Archano- 

 don, &c., to the botanical and geological sections of universities, 

 colleges, and museums in the British Empire, where it is found that 

 such specimens would be welcome. Such gifts would, of course, be 

 accompanied by a statement as to the auspices under which the material 

 was obtained. 



The Lower Pala>ozoic Rocks of England and Wales. — Report 

 of the Committee, consisting of Professor W. W. Watts 

 (Chairman), Professor W. G. Fearnsides {Secretary), Pro- 

 fessors W. S. BouLTON and G. Lapworth, Mr. E. S. 

 CoBBOLD, Mr. V. C. Illing, and Dr. J. E. Mark, aqypointed 

 to excavate Critical Sections therein. 

 Owing to the early departure of the Association for Australia in 1914 

 it wa? not possible to report on the work of the preceding year in Shrop- 

 shire. The annexed report gives an account of Mr. Cobbold's excavations 

 in that and the previous year. 



The war has rendered it impossible to carry out any excavations 

 during 1915. 



The Committee asks for reappointment, with a grant of 15L — this 

 year's unexpended grant. 



^ixth Refort on Excavations among the Cambrian Rocks of Comley, 

 . Shropshire (1912, 1913, 1914). By E. S. Cobbold, F.G.S. 



A portioi> of the grant made to the Committee on its reconstitution 

 at the Birmingham Meetiijg was entrusted to the writer for the continua- 

 tion of his excavatioiis in the Gonaley area. 



In the previous year, when no grant was available, certain sections 



