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Glasgow Geological Society. — The last monthly meeting of the 

 winter session of this Society was held in the Society's Eoom, Ander- 

 sonian University, on the 12th April — Dr. John Scouler, F.L.S., 

 Vice-president, in the chair. 



Mr. James Bennie exhibited two specimens of remains belonging 

 to the ancient, but now extinct, cattle of Clydesdale, and which Dr. 

 Scouler had identified — the first as a small specimen of part of the 

 forehead and horns of the Hos longifrons, which he (Mr. Bennie) had 

 got from an excavation in Etitherglen Loan, and the other as a horn of 

 the Bos primigenius, which he had got from an excavation in Green- 

 dyke Street, The excavation in Eutherglen Loan was for a sewer, 

 and was from 7 to 8 feet deep. The remains of the Bos longifrons 

 he had obtained from it, was found near to Eose Street, in a deposit 

 of unmistakeable river drift, consisting of sand, gravel, drift Tvood 

 and bark, hazel and oak nuts, leaf beds, and other vegetable debris. 

 The hollows in the specimen were filled with the grey sand, and Mr. 

 Bennie called attention to two oval holes which had evidently been 

 made by some implement, for what purpose he could not say, but he 

 had little doubt of their having been bored by one of the old canoe- 

 men of the Clyde, with whom there were not wanting proofs that 

 these extinct Clydesdale cattle had been contemporaneous, one of 

 which he produced in the shape of a perforated stone sinker, got 

 from the same bed, and which was similar to some of those he had 

 got from Windmillcroft Dock. The cutting in Greendyke Street was 

 also for a sewer ; it was about 10 or 11 feet deep, and although the 

 section of it from which he had obtained the horn of the Bos primi- 

 genius was composed of a black eaithy silt, without any trace of sand, 

 gravel, drift-wood, or nuts, numerous leaf beds occuiTed in it, with 

 innumerable roots and stems of water plants traversing them, mark- 

 ing it unmistakeably as a deposit of river silt. 



A paper was then read " on the Occurrence of Coal Strata under 

 the Traps of the Bowling Hills," by Mr. Alexander Currie, of Bowl- 

 ing, in which he said that with the view of corroborating the opinions 

 held by various members of the society, in opposition to those put 

 forth by the officers of the Government Geological Survey, he wished 

 to direct their attention to the occm-rence of certain coal seams 

 which had come under his observation, in his own neighbourhood, 

 and which, being overlaid by the traps of the Bowling Hills, might 

 help to throw some light on the age of these igneous rocks which 

 form the western termination of the Kilpatrick range. The physical 

 aspect of this beautiful range of hills must be familiar to all who 

 have sailed up and down the Clyde, or who have had the pleasure of 

 rambling among them and examining their structure. From near 

 Old Kilpatrick to Dumbarton they impinge on the shores of the 

 Clyde, forming in some parts of the foreground a series of abrupt 

 conical heights, such as Dunglas, Dumbuck, and Dumbarton rock ; 

 while in the background there are the lofty terraced fronts of the 

 Long Craigs and other eminences, the whole presenting a scene only 

 to be witnessed among the trap-hills of Scotland. It is evident 

 that the Bowling Hills form part of the great chain of trappean 



