214 Notices of Memoirs — Devonshire Association. 



Dev-onshirb Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 Vol. V. Parti. 1872. 



THIS volume contains a record of the proceedings wticli took 

 place at the meeting held at Exeter, in July, 1872, with the 

 Eight Eev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter as President. 



Mr. P. 0. Hutchinson mentions the dredging of bones and teeth 

 off Sidmouth, and the discovery of a tooth in the bed of the river 

 Sid. He also contributes a note on Iron Pits, which were originally 

 sunk for the purpose of seeking iron ore. In Devonshire they occur 

 mostly on the hills capped by the Greensand formation, covered in 

 places by a bed of plastic clay mixed with angular flints. The ore 

 was procured on the hills, and the reducing process no doubt carried 

 on in the valleys, for he notices the occurrence of numerous pieces 

 of scoria in the parish of Uffculme, indicating that there had been a 

 smelting place not far off. At Church Stanton, in the Blackdown 

 Hills, there are the remains of several smelting places, indicated by 

 scoriee and slag. 



Mr. E. N. Worth describes the rocks in the neighbourhood of 

 Plymouth. 



Mr. T. M. Hall points out records of tide, rain, and wind, during 

 the Carboniferous Period in North Devon, in the shape of ripple- 

 marks, and the imprints of rain-drops. Some little depressions 

 which occurred in great numbers, and over more than twenty 

 distract surfaces in close proximity to each other, sometimes sepa- 

 rated l)y a number of intermediate layers of smooth slate, he 

 attributed to showers of drifting sand, the finer particles of which, 

 borne upon the wind, had fallen upon soft mud. This idea was 

 strongly supported by the occasional existence in some of the de- 

 pressions of a small gritty nucleus, more or less angular in its 

 character, and considerably harder than the matrix in which it was 

 imbedded. 



Mr. George Pycroft describes probable Glacial deposits in the 

 valleys of Dawlish and Ashcombe, South Devon. 



Mr. Pengelly furnishes some notes on the MacJiairodus latidens 

 found by the Eev. J. MacEnery in Kent's Cavern, Torquay. He 

 concludes that there is no reason whatever for believing that more 

 than five canines and one incisor were found by Mr. MacEnery ; and 

 that the species belonged to the era of the Cave -earth of Kent's 

 Cavern. There is, at present, no evidence that it belonged to the 

 earlier period represented by the "Breccia"; and Mr. Pengelly 

 adds, that should such evidence present itself hereafter, it will simply 

 prove that, like the Cave Bear, MacJiairodus belonged to both periods. 



Mr. Pengelly gives an account of the Literature of the Oreston 

 Caverns, near Plymouth, and also a list of the mammalian remains 

 found in them. 



Mr. Whitaker furnishes a Supplementary List of Works on the 



