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19 December. 



A meeting of the Club was held on Tuesday evening — the 

 President (F. W. Lockwood, C.E.) in the chair — when the 

 evening was devoted to geological subjects. 



The President, after some introductory remarks in regard to 

 the Larne gravels, called upon the first paper, by Miss Nora 

 Steen, on " The Craiganogh Cave, County Antrim." 



Miss Steen described the discovery by Colonel Leslie of a cave 

 in the grounds at Seaport, Bushmills, immediately below the 

 fort mentioned by the Rev. James O'Laverty in his work on 

 Down and Connor. Upon the removal of a stalagmite from 

 the entrance the rest of the cave was found to be filled with 

 enormous sea-worn stones. When these were removed, sand 

 and broken bones, cemented by calcareous matter, were found. 

 Professor R. O. Cunningham identifies the following animals : 

 — Red deer, ox, sheep or goat, pig or wild boar, dog, wolf, or 

 fox. Deer antlers have been found in the sandhills about a mile 

 away, and Miss Steen suggested that the bones may have been 

 thrown into the sea from the fort above and washed into the 

 cave. 



The next paper, by Robert Bell, was entitled ''A Day 

 Amongst the Silurian Shales of Pomeroy." The essayist dealt 

 with the results of a visit in July last. These shales are very 

 interesting, being the nearest place where those characteristic 

 palaeozoic crustaceans, the trilobites, can be obtained. The rough 

 fossiliferous grits, with marks resembling seaweeds and worm 

 tubes, lie south of the granite hill of Bardahessiagh, and termi- 

 nate abruptly, being unconformably overlain by more recent 

 sandy beds. The trilobites occur in a section cut by the river 

 near Dickson's house and the slate quarry. The paper concluded 

 with a list of the fossils found, which were on view during the 

 evening. 



Alex. G. Wilson, hon. sec, then gave a lengthened and 

 carefully-prepared account of the geological investigations of the 



