A BIBLIOGRAPHY 



OF 



IRISH GLACIAL AND POST-GLACIAL GEOLOGY. 



THE following list of books, papers, and notes bearing on the glacial and 

 post-glacial geology of Ireland bad but a small beginning. It originated 

 in a few dozen references to records of post-glacial fossils in the North-east of 

 Ireland, thrown together for my own convenience. This list was added to by 

 degrees, accumulating according to the manner of a snowball, each paper giving 

 references to a number of others. Eventually, it appeared to me that if the list 

 could be extended, completed, and published, it might prove a saving of time and 

 labour to other workers ; and in this thougbt I had especially in my mind the 

 energetic members of the Geological Section of the Belfast Naturalists' Field 

 Club, who have not convenient access to many of the journals, &c, quoted 

 below, and on whom Prof. Cole recently urged 1 the importance of getting 

 together their local geological literature. 



In order to complete the list, systematic work was necessary, and sets of 

 Periodicals and Proceedings of Societies which might contain references to Irish 

 geology had to be carefully gone through. This portion of the work proved 

 more extensive and tedious than was expected, and indeed had I known how 

 much time it would involve, it is doubtful if the present effort would have seen 

 the light. But in spite of time and care, I am well aware that my list must 

 contain many omissions, though it is hoped that none of them are serious ones. 

 Geologists working at any branch of the subjects included in the present com- 

 pilation, or at the geology of any particular district, are nearly sure, among the 

 scattered records of Irish geology, to unearth some references which, in my 

 necessarily hurried work, have escaped notice. To them I would appeal to 

 favour me with a note of such references, in order that, by the publication of a 

 supplement, the present attempt may justify its title, and become a complete 

 guide to the literature of Irish glacial and post-glacial geology. 



As to the scope of the present list. Although believed to be of Pliocene, not 

 Pleistocene age, the so-called " manure gravels " of Wexford have been included. 

 They are the only marine Tertiary beds in Ireland, and are moreover of late 

 Pliocene age, possessing a fauna distinctly related to that of the incoming glacial 

 period ; when to these is added the fact that the literature relating to the Wexford 

 beds is much mixed up with that of the succeeding series, the advantage and 

 convenience of this inclusion will be apparent. In view of recent papers in the 

 Irish Naturalist on caves, and Dr. Scharff's bibliography of that subject, 

 references to caves have been included, even if these references had no distinctly 

 geological bearing ; for much cave-exploration remains to be carried out in Ireland, 

 as to both their past and present fauna ; and a list of localities is therefore a 

 desideratum. 



In dealing with the human period, a difficulty constantly presented itself as to 

 Urish Naturalist, IV., 49. 1895. 



