88 Notices of Menoirs—Kinahan on the Fintona Mountains. 
Little Ouse, and other places, says (p. 165), that ‘‘ A vast antiquity 
must be assigned to the implements ; at the same time, the evidence 
thus far, fairly interpreted, will not allow us to assign to any of 
the beds containing them a greater age than those usually classed 
as Quaternary or Post-Glacial.” In the discussion that followed 
the reading of this paper, Mr. J. H. Blake stated “he was well 
acquainted with many of the localities mentioned in the paper, where 
implements had been found; and, so far as his own investigations 
had gone, he considered there was no reliable evidence whatever 
of any flint-implement-bearing-bed in the Hast of England, being of 
greater antiquity than that generally known as the Post-Glacial 
Period.” 
In conjunction with these opinions, it is interesting to read that 
expressed by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins in his address to the Depart- 
ment of Anthropology of the British Association (Southampton, 
1882). After noting the discoveries of paleeolithic implements at 
Crayford and Erith, he asks, “To what stage in the Pleistocene 
period are we to refer these traces of the River-drift hunter? The 
only answer which I am able to give is that the associated animals 
are intermediate between the Forest-bed group and that which 
characterises the late Pleistocene division in the region extending 
from the Alps and the Pyrenees as far north as Yorkshire. Nor am 
I able to form an opinion about their relation to the submergence of 
Middle or Northern Britain under the waves of the glacial sea. 
They are quite as likely to be pre- as post-glacial.” 
TV.—Report on tHe Rocks oF THE Fintona anp CurLtEWw Mountain 
Districts. By G. H. Kinanay, M.R.LA., with Paleontological 
Remarks by W. H. Batty, F.G.S. 
HIS report commences with a discussion of the age of the Pomeroy 
and Lisbellaw fossiliferous rocks. Near the former place, in 
County Tyrone, three distinct groups of rocks (neglecting the Car- 
boniferous) are Sai ae namely :— 
3. ‘* Lower Old Red Sandstone”’ (EEE 
2. Pomeroy Series. 
1. Arenig Group. 
Attention is now directed to the rocks of the Pomeroy series, 
which are evidently much newer than the metamorphic rocks north 
of them (Arenig Group), although both groups are called Lower 
Silurian in the Geological Survey Memoir descriptive of the district. 
The fossils indicate an age similar to the Caradoc-Bala series. The 
“Lower Old Red Sandstone,” it was thought, rested unconformably 
on the Pomeroy Series. 
In his paleeontological notes, Mr. Baily remarks that the Pomeroy 
district is celebrated for the beauty and variety of its fossils, 111 
species having been recorded from a comparatively small area of 
strata. 
A portion of the report is devoted to a discussion of the Silurian 
rocks, commonly called ‘Lower Old Red Sandstone,” of Tyrone, 
Fermanagh, and the Curlew Mountains, with their relations to the 
