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" ihe interesting fin J, which, as in the case of Natterer's Bat, 

 " had not previously been recorded from Co. Down." 



During the discussion that: followed, Mr. Robert Patterson 

 exhibited a specimen of the Whiskered Bat which he had re- 

 ceived from Dromore, Co. Down, in July, 1898 — several months 

 before the capture of Canon Letts' specimen. 



JOSEPH WRIGHT, F.G.S.— '« FORAMINIFERA OF 

 THE PLEISTOCENE CLAY" OF BOVEVAGH, CO. 

 DERRY." 



The earliest notice which we have of the fossiliferous clay at 

 Bovevagh is in Portlock's Geological Report of Londonderry, 

 &c. x At page 159 he thus refers to the clay : — (i In Bovevagh 

 the most remarkable bed is on the Bovevagh River as it passes 

 the old church ; it is full of Turritella terebra lying in all 

 directions and contains only fragments of any other shell ; it 

 is separated by a layer of gravel from a sandy calcareous clay 

 not containing fossils, and that again is covered by a confused 

 deposit of sand and gravel 60 feet thick, streaked with more 

 regular layers of sand and gravel." And again, " The heaped 

 up and confused arrangement of Turritellce shows a peculiar 

 accumulation in that spot, the result probably of meeting 

 currents, and in looking at the country, and mentally abstract- 

 ing from it the superficial gravel, one is almost inclined to 

 thimc that the course and manner of such formations can yet 

 be traced." 



About 22 years ago I visited this place in company with two 

 fellow-members of the Belfast Naturalist's Field Club, and 

 brought away some of the clay for microscopical examination. 

 Foraminifera were found to occur in it in great profusion, and 

 a list of the species is given in the Proceedings of the Club, 

 1879-80'. 



1. Report on tin Gaology of Londoulerry, Tyro.ie, and Femiaaagh, 1843. 



2. Wright, Post Tertiary Foraminifera of the North-east of Ireland, Proc. 

 Belfast Naturalist's Field Club.— app. 1879-80- 



