30 Notices of Memoirs—Law and Horsfall—Carboniferous Fossils. 
Hitherto, however, not a relic has been found to show that man had 
arrived in this country at that time. But in the immediately 
succeeding period, with the advent of cold conditions and of the 
northern animals, evidences of his presence become abundant. 
Whether man at an earlier period migrated northward from some 
tropical or sub-tropical area, where he could have lived on fruit and 
such like food, there is no evidence at present to show ; but it seems 
certain that the man of the Glacial period in this country lived 
mainly on animal food, and that he found the Reindeer to be the most 
suitable to supply his wants. He followed the Reindeer in their 
compulsory migrations, during the gradually increasing Glacial con- 
ditions, and kept mainly with them near the edge of the advancing ice. 
IJ.—On tHe Discovery or CarponiFerous Fosstrs 1n A Con- 
GLOMERATE AT MoucutTon Fenn, NEAR SetTTiE, YORKSHIRE. By 
Rosert Law, F.G.S., and James Horsratt.! 
FTER briefly noting the various exposures of the conglomerate, 
its unconformability with the Silurian rocks, its nature, 
probable age, and the circumstances which led to the discovery of 
fossils in it; the authors described the following section exhibited 
on the south-west side of Moughton Fell. 
a. Scar Limestone, of light grey colour and well jointed; layers very distinct in 
lower parts and almost horizontal, the genus Bellerophon being the com- 
monest fossil in the lowest bed of this rock. Thickness from 300 to 500 feet. 
6. ConcLtomERATE.—Of a bluish-grey colour when newly fractured, and becoming 
reddish on exposure to the air. The fragments are rounded, angular, and 
sub-angular in form, consisting of slate, grit, flagstone, and vein-quartz, all 
apparently derived from Silurian rocks. Fossil shells and corals are common 
throughout the bed. Bellerophon, Euomphalus, Syringopora and Lithostrotion 
are the prevailing genera. Thickness from 1 to 12 feet. 
c. Lower Silurian slates, of great thickness, having a N.E. strike and a dip of 
about 65°. The dip and cleavage appear to be on the same plane in this 
locality. 
The nature and the origin of the stones in the conglomerate were 
next pointed out; also it was shown that the portion of the bed in 
which fossils had been found was not more than 200 yards in length, 
and that it was thickest in the middle, thinning out to the east and 
west, and at one point could be seen merging into the overlying 
limestone. 
The fossils collected from the conglomerate are as follows :— 
Syringopora ramulosa. Bellerophon cornu-arietis. 
Lithostrotion basaltiforme. Natica plicistria. 
Euomphalus pentangulatus. Natica lirata. 
Cirrus, one species. Natica elliptica. 
Sanguinolaria angustata. Inoceramus, one species. 
Pleurotomaria, one species. Spirifera, one species. 
Orthoceratite, one species. Pecten, one species. 
Rhynchonella acuminata. Productus, three species. 
Bellerophon tangentialis. Leptaena, one species. 
In conclusion, attention was called to the probable method by 
which the conglomerate was formed. 
1 Abstract of paper read before the Geological Section of British Association, 
Manchester, 1887. 
