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Mr. W. M‘Diarmr read an interesting extract from the old Burgh 
Records of Dumfries, 1740. Dr. Grierson then read a paper on 
Relics of Pre-historical Man in Nithsdale, as elucidated by a col- 
lection of stone celts, spear-heads, and other implements, some of 
which he regarded as of local, and others of foreign and superior 
workmanship; the latter possibly belonging to an invading race.— 
From the Dumfries Herald. 
The Winter Meeting of the Warwicksuire NATURALISTS’ FreLp- 
CLUB was held in the Museum, Warwick, by the kind permission of 
the Council of the Natural History Society, at twelve o'clock, on Tues- 
day, 14th of February, 1865. The President, Wykeham Martin, Esq., 
M.P., having taken the chair, called upon Mr. Parker to deliver 
his promised Lecture On the Bone-Caves of Liége, which he had 
recently visited. laving described them in detail, he declared him- 
self unable to discover the force of Sir C. Lyell’s arguments respect- 
ing the great antiquity of their contents, from the physical aspect of 
the neighbourhood, and from the presence of remains of extinct ani- 
mals. It was clear, he thought, that their contents had been intro- 
duced at different periods. He contended that the Bear was coeval 
with Man as well as with the Rhinoceros; but the argument for the 
coexistence of the latter alone with Man he thought to be very im- 
perfect. Considering the way in which these caves have been filled, 
he thought that the fact of the remains of Man being found under the 
conditions detailed by Sir C. Lyell would not appear extraordinary, 
nor afford evidence of very great antiquity. 
The President then read the Proceedings of the Club during the 
past year, in lieu of the usual Address customary on this occasion, 
with a few prefatory remarks on the prosperous condition of the 
Club, but urging a better attendance at the ordinary Field-meetings. 
He then called upon the Rev. P. B. Bropiz to read his paper On 
three Liassic Outliers in Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Cumberland. 
It was pointed out that some outliers had been deposited indepen- 
dently, though contemporaneously, while others, once connected with 
the main mass, had been afterwards denuded. In the Shropshire 
outlier, the fossils, though belonging to different zones, are in most 
respects identical with well-known Liassic species, but a few are 
peculiar to Germany and Scotland—a fact worthy of notice. This 
outlier is ten miles long by six broad ; but the Drift, for the most 
part, conceals the underlying stratum, and few sections are now ex- 
posed. This is the case also in Cumberland. In Staffordshire the 
lowest beds of the Lias (Rhztic) are exposed near Needwood Forest, 
and present a section and fossils similar to those of the outlier at 
Copt Heath, near Knowle, already described. The Cumberland out- 
lier, long supposed to be Mountain-limestone, belongs evidently to 
the Lima and Saurian beds of the Lias. The chief point of interest 
is to decide whether these were originally detached outliers, or con- 
nected with the chief range of the Lias. The first two are not so 
very far apart in a straight line, while the latter is nearer to the 
same formation in Ireland, near Belfast, which was next described, 
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