Correspondence — Mr. Robert Cox. 523 



3. The beds of sand interstratified with beds of clay. 



(a) Their number, thickness, and extent, and the directions in 



which they vary in thickness. 

 (6) Presence of pebbles and grains of quartz. Their size ; 



rounded or angular ; free or cemented together. 



4. The occurrence of " re-formed " beds containing fragments of 



clay enclosing leaves. Whether these beds are confined to 

 mouths of chines. 



5. Varying thickness of the pebble bed and gravel beds on the 



surface. 



6. Shells and insects have as yet been found only at Studland. A 



further collection, with note of exact locality, would be very 



valuable. 



It is requested that letters be directed to W. Stephen Mitchell, 



Esq., Caius College, Cambridge, and specimens (which should be 



separately wrapped in soft paper and firmly packed in hay or 



crumpled paper) to Henry Woodward, Esq., British Museum, W.C. 



It is hoped that arrangements will soon be completed in Bourne- 

 mouth for a public local collection. 



coI^I^Es:E»OIs^DE^^c:E]. 



MEGACER08 HIBERNICUS, THE GIGANTIC IRISH DEER. 



Sir. — It may interest some of your readers to learn that I have a 

 very fine pair of horns, with skull attached, of the gigantic Irish deer 

 (Megaceros Hibernicus), found in the bog of Schiule, Co. Limerick, at 

 the depth of about 16 feet. The measurement of the horns is as 

 follows : — Tip to tip, 12 feet 8 inches ; round the curve, 14 feet 5 

 inches ; breadth of palm,' 4 feet 6 inches (?). Should any museum 

 require a fine head of this deer, I shall be glad to send further 

 particulars. Robert Cox. 



Ballyneale, Ballingarry, Co. Limerick. 



Sir, — Please publish the following : — William Hinchley, Carpenter, 

 Thomond's Gate, Limerick, has a good specimen of a head of a female 

 Megaceros to sell. These are rather rare and hard to get, as they 

 are so like horses' heads that few people who find them put any value 

 upon them. G. H. K. 



CONNEMARA. 



ON THE FORMATION OF THE CHESIL BANK. 



Sir, — In a paper under this heading in your number for October, 

 Mr. Bristow and Mr. Whitaker quote from my book '•' Eain and 

 Eivers." I have said that Portland was probably at one time 

 made an island by the erosion of the sea, and that it was afterwards 

 re-joined to England by the rising of the land. Mr. Whitaker teUs 



^ ? Circumference. — Edit. 



