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At a committee meeting of the Club, held in the Museum, 

 on 5th April, 1889, a letter was read signed by W. Gray, 

 M.P.I.A., and R. Lloyd Praeger, B.E., in which the writers 

 stated that being at present engaged in investigations of the 

 Post-tertiary deposits of the North of Ireland, the former as 

 regards the flint implements found in connection with these 

 beds, and the latter as regards the fossils which they yield, they 

 now proposed that the Field Club should co-operate with them 

 in making a complete and exhaustive examination of the 

 Gravels and underlying beds at Larne. In this way they 

 hoped to settle definitely the questions of the geological age of 

 the deposits, and the position in them of the worked flints ; a 

 full report of the proceedings, accompanied by figured sections 

 and lists of the fossils obtained, to be brought before the Club 

 and embodied in their Proceedings. A resolution was passed 

 approving the suggestion, and appointing Messrs. S. A. Stewart, 

 F.B.S.E., Joseph Wright, F.G.S., and William Swanston, 

 F.G.S., a committee to co-operate with the above-named. 

 This committee was authorized to expend a sum of ^5, a like 

 amount being advanced by Messrs. Gray and Praeger. 



II. — NARRATIVE OF THE INVESTIGATION. 



The spot selected for the investigation was at the place 

 marked A on the map accompanying the above-mentioned re- 

 port. This is on the southern side of the railway, 1,200 feet 

 from the edge of the quay in front of the southern terminus, 

 the exact spot being 75 feet North by West (magnetic), of the 

 eastern corner of the houses called " The Strand" in Fleet 

 Street ; here the escarpment of gravel is at its highest. The 

 debris that lay along the base of the bank was carefully cleared 

 away, leaving a clean and almost perpendicular face of gravel 

 \$'-6" in height. On the turf on the top of the bank above 

 this cleared face a space 9 feet long by 5 feet broad was marked 

 out, and a cutting of this area was carried down the whole 

 depth of the section exposed, the material being taken out in 

 horizontal layers and cast down on the cleared ground below, 



