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report furnished from Ireland. During the last twelve months 

 some interesting facts have occurred. Foremost comes R. Bell's 

 discovery of mammalian remains, consisting of a portion of a 

 skull with one horn attached, and a dorsal vertebra with neural 

 spine. The remains were shown to Professor A. C. Haddon 

 who pronounced them to be ox bones, and recommended 

 submitting them to E. T. Newton, f.r.s., Jermyn Street 

 Museum. E. T. Newton reports that the skull has a longer 

 horn-case and is broader across the forehead than any Bos 

 longifrons he is aware of, but would do for a modern variety of 

 Bos taurus, that it might possibly be a small form of Bos 

 primigenius ', but it would be very unsafe to refer it to that fossil 

 genus. There is no indication of any disturbance of the section, 

 and the horn only protruded an inch and a half from the solid 

 face of the clay, seven feet below the surface (the section 

 varying from 15 to 20 feet, resting on Trias.) S. A. Stewart 

 and the Secretary subsequently visited the brickfield, and a bag 

 of clay was obtained from the point where the bone occurred, 

 and has not yielded any marine organisms. These boulder 

 clays extend for miles along the Lagan valley, yet, considering 

 the surprising way in which extraneous objects may be intro- 

 duced into apparently undisturbed deposits, further discoveries 

 would be desirable to establish the existence in boulder clay of 

 mammalian remains. 



A fine Lima gigantea, well polished and scored, was found on 

 the Bog meadows, and a well glaciated piece of Carboniferous 

 coral was picked up in a brickfield at Oldpark Road, Belfast, 

 200 feet above sea. 



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The origin of boulder clay still continues to be the battle- 

 ground of glacialists. Professor Bonney has pointed out that 

 its inclusion of marine organisms is not conclusive, as the 

 alternative theories of submergence or of glaciers passing over 

 the sea-bottom, including it and carrying it to higher levels, 



