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upon mediaeval antiquities, the stone and bronze periods of 

 Ireland were not forgotten, and some of the stone objects were 

 illustrated by those of a similar form from New Caledonia, New 

 Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, North and South America, 

 Africa, &c., &c. Among the gold ornaments exhibited were a 

 fillet of gold, from the County Cork ; a fibula, with wineglass- 

 shaped ends ; a twisted tore, from Donegal ; a silver arm-and- 

 neck tore, from Kerry ; &c., &c. 



The second communication was by Mr. William Gray, 

 M.R.I.A. The reader directed attention to erroneous state- 

 ments, published under the auspices of the Royal Irish 

 Academy and other learned societies, with reference to the 

 mammoth and the ancient flint implements of Antrim. Mr. 

 Gray read from the reports of the Belfast meeting of the British 

 Association that the Rev. Canon Grainger, D.D., of Brough- 

 shane, included a mammoth's tooth in a list of fossils from the 

 glacial gravels of Ballyrudder, on the Antrim coast road. In 

 the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy and the "Journal" 

 of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland, the late Professor 

 Leith Adams describes this tooth as having been found by Dr. 

 Grainger " sticking in a marine deposit." Thus, the fact of 

 finding the tooth in a particular bed was apparently settled 

 upon the authority of so reliable a scientist as the Rev. Canon 

 Grainger. Mr. Gray, however, demonstrated that the tooth 

 was not found by Dr Grainger, but was first found by a farm 

 labourer several years before Dr. Grainger saw it. The original 

 tooth was broken into several pieces, and the pieces were dis- 

 tributed among the cottages in the neighbourhood, until the 

 scientific eye of Dr. Grainger detected the large piece at the 

 residence of the late Joseph Dale, of Ballyrudder ; so that 

 beyond the fact of the tooth being found, the evidence it affords 

 is of no scientific value. Dr. Grainger states that he picked up 

 a small fragment of the tooth near where it was first found. 

 This fact confirms the labourer's account of the transaction, but 

 does not determine either the exact position, or the geological 

 formation from which the fossil originally came. Yet this tooth 



