182 fieports and Proceedings. 
On a Glacial Clay at Cornton, near Bridge of Allan,—the same clay 
in which during the spring of last year the skeleton of a Whale was 
found, at a depth of 9 feet from the surface. In July last, Mr. Has- 
well visited the spot, and in a sandy clay, exposed in a burn-section 
behind Mr. Christie’s brick-work, he found shells of what might be 
termed a Post-Glacial character, and which seemed to have flourished 
during the close of the Glacial Epoch. ‘These were mostly species 
characteristic of the Littoral Zone and still inhabiting the Forth ; 
for instance, Ostrea edulis (and a peculiar curved variety of it, which 
does not seem to be common now), Mytilus edulis, Cardium edule, a 
young specimen of C. echinatum, Buccinum undatum, Litorina litorea 
(large estuarine variety), and £. rudis: also others of a more Arctic 
kind, as Trophon scalariforme, and what seemed to be small speci- 
mens of Yellina proxima. Besides these, there was a Balanus; 
and, mixed up with the shells, there were pieces of bark, probably 
of Alder, Nuts of the Hazel, and rootlets and fibres of various 
marsh-plants. These were all found ata height of about 30 feet 
above the present level of the sea, and, together with other evidence, 
seem to indicate that the bed of the Estuary of the Forth has been 
raised to that extent since these Molluses lived in it.—Mr. Haswell 
also gave a résumé of the various Cetacean, Phocine, and other 
remains that had been found in the clay of the Carse of Stirling since 
the discovery of the first Whale (Airthrie) in 1819; and he described 
some bones, &c., which had been lying unnoticed in Stirling for 
some time; namely, a right antler of Platyceros Dama, a right antler 
of Cervus elaphus, a skull of a Bos (probably B. longifrons), a jaw of 
a Horse, and two jaws of a Shark (Porbeagle ?); all found, when 
preparing the foundation of the New Bridge at Stirling, in blue clay 
about 10 feet below the bed of the Forth ;—also the skull of a Wolf, 
found at a depth of 20 feet, and the pelvis of a Horse, found in 1862, 
when taking out sand 5 feet below the bed of the Forth. Mr. Has- 
well remarked, in conclusion, that-it would be interesting to deter- 
mine if the clays on the East Coast were of the same age as those on 
the West Coast of Scotland; but he thought that, as the former had 
been so little examined, and so much remained to be investigated, it 
was rather premature to discuss their relative ages at present. 
Dr. Selkirk, of Carluke, sent for exhibition some beautifully 
sculptured scales of Gyrolepis Rankini, which he had lately dis- 
covered in shale below the Main Limestone (in the lower series of 
the Carboniferous Limestone) at Braidwood, near Carluke, Lanark- 
shire. 
IJ. February 23rd.—Mr. Groree Lyon read a paper On Chalk, 
and the Mode of obtaining Foraminifera from that substance. 
Mr. Davip Pace made some interesting remarks On the Fossils 
found by Mr. Mathieson, of Jedburgh, in the Carboniferous and Old 
Red Sandstones of Roxburghshire. Among the latter are a speci- 
men of Pterichthys major and a jaw-plate of Bothriolepis, which 
are of peculiar value, as they link these beds to those of Dura Den 
in Fifeshire. 
IV. At the Meeting held March 2nd, Mr. David Page, F.G.S., 
