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record exists ; its true nature is somewhat problematic, its '■fades'' is 

 that of a " Labyrinthulean," but the non-nucleated spindles are 

 seemingly a bar to its admission as yet to a place in that group ; it 

 does not resemble any of Hackel's Monera, it has no seeming 

 immediate affinity to Rhizopoda, and, so far as we can see, must con- 

 tinue for the present an isolated problematic production which the 

 Author would meantime suggest should remain in abeyance, standing 

 under the designation Clilmmjdomyxa labyrintlmloides. 



[This Paper will appear in the Proceedings, Second Series, Vol. II., 

 Part 2, Science, with coloured illustrations.] 



E. T. Hardman, P.C.S., &c., read a paper " On two new deposits of 

 Human and other Bones discovered in the Cave of Dunmore, County 

 Kilkenny." 



The author having referred to the descriptions by previous writers, 

 of this cave, who all agreed that there was but one locality in which 

 bones were to be got, noticed more particularly that of Dr. A. "Wynne 

 Foot, who had described and named a quantity of human bones which 

 he had obtained from one part of the cave. Lately the author had 

 visited the cave, and found at quite the opposite extremity — near the 

 " Market Cross" — some 600 feet distant, two places in which bones 

 occuiTed abundantly, not only human, but also those of sheep or 

 goat, pig, and ox. All these, as well as those described by 

 Dr. Poot, are found lying in or at the base of stratified beds 

 of sand and clay (covered with stalagmite), which have been 

 introduced by old openings or fissures leading either into old 

 chambers, or to the siu-face ; the bones having been swept into their 

 present position by a stream of water. Tiiis would be quite in accor- 

 dance with Ly ell's doctrine, as to the presence of bones in the caves of 

 Liege and elsewhere. The author controverted the idea that the bones 

 could be those of natives massacred by the Danes, and considered that 

 they might be pre-historic. IS'o flint implements had yet been found, 

 but they had not been especially searched for, and might escape casual 

 observation. The author hoped to be able to continue his explora- 

 tions during the summer. 



A collection of bones fi'om the old and new localities was exhi- 

 bited. 



[This Paper wiU appear in the Proceedings, Second Series, Vol. 

 II., Science, Part 2., with an illustration.] 



The Academy then adjourned. 



