326 Reports and Proceedings. 



Dr. Scouler next gave an account of the various remains of 

 extinct quadrupeds found in the valley of the Clyde. They include 

 the elephant, the Bos primigenius, the reindeer, and the red deer. 

 The remains of the red deer are by far the most common. They 

 occur in bogs, in the alluvial soil, and in the river alluvium. The 

 reindeer is more rare ; but a fine specimen was found near the End- 

 rick several years ago ; and Dr. Scouler exhibited a fragment of the 

 horn of this species dredged from the Clyde, near Eenfrew. A fine 

 specimen of the head and horns of Bos primigenius, exhibited by 

 Dr. Scouler, was also found in the Clyde, near Eenfrew, in digging 

 the foundations for a house. Kilmams, near Kilmarnock, must 

 have been a great resort of the Mammoth, as no fewer than nine 

 tusks of it had been found there, which would indicate at least five 

 elephants, and it is somewhat remarkable that none of their bones 

 have been traced, with the exception of a portion of a molar found 

 by himself. The horns of the reindeer were foimd associated with 

 these remains of the elephant. 



28th April, 1866. — The first excursion of the season was a, visit 

 to Comeburn, on the Campsie Fells. The Corrie is situated on the 

 hillside, about a mile and a half to the north of the road leading to 

 Kilsyth, and about two miles north-west from that town. From the 

 variety of phenomena exhibited in the sections of both its east and west 

 bums, and its easy access from Griasgow, it is perhaps one of the very 

 best of the many localities for geological field study in the immediate 

 neighbom'hood of the city. The hillside sections of Corrie exhibit in 

 their lowest di-\asions beds of trappean (volcanic) ash and greenstone, 

 overlaid by strata of sandstone, limestone, shale, coal, and ironstone. 

 The geological position of the Corrie beds is in the lower division of 

 the Carboniferous Limestone series, and the limestones and shales 

 are characterised by an abundance of the peculiar marine organisms 

 of that period. The members then proceeded up the west burn, 

 examining the numerous boulders in its bed, which have been washed 

 out of a great deposit of Boulder Clay, which forms the western 

 bank of the stream. Many of these boulders are of great size — one 

 of them, in particular, being estimated as upwards of 50 tons in 

 weight ; some of them present very distinct traces of glacial strise, 

 and are, indeed, among the finest examples of large striated boulders 

 in the district around Glasgow. After examining the altered strata 

 of sandstone, limestone, and shale in contact with the trap rock 

 above the lofty waterfall in the western burn, the party proceeded 

 along the hill-side to the eastward, where a thin vein of sulphate of 

 Barytes in the trap crops out. It contains traces of silver and 

 copper, which were once unsuccessfully attempted to be worked. 

 Specimens of the heavy spar, as it is called, ha^dng been procured, 

 the party reached the eastern burn in the Corrie, where a very fine 

 section of shale, with nodules of clay ironstone, is seen. In passing 

 along the hill-side the sandstones and shales are seen to be very 

 much indurated near their junction with the trap rocks, proving 

 clearly that the various sedimentar}'^ beds of the Corrie had been 

 elevated, disturbed, and altered since the period of their original de- 

 position. 



