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its vertebral column, too, from its apparently extreme flexibility, 

 would tend to confirm this view. The specimen on the table 

 was extremely interesting, as being — so far as can be traced — the 

 first fragment from Irish strata, and from the additional reason 

 that it tends to confirm the view long since advanced that our 

 chalk may be considered as perhaps the highest member of the 

 cretaceous system in the British Islands, and most nearly 

 correlated with the chalk of Maestricht, in Belgium, in 

 which this species attained its maximum of development, and 

 which is considered the highest known zone of the cretaceous 

 system. 



A HUMAN SKULL FOUND AT TILLYSBURN. 



Mr. Robert M. Young, B.A., read a communication from Mr. J. 

 Anderson, J.P., Holywood, regarding a human skull which had 

 been found on the 17th January by Captain M'Cance, J.P., 

 about eighteen inches below the surface of the slob, some ten 

 or twelve yards inside the railway embankment, and immediately 

 at the foot of Captain M'Cance' s windmill. 



Dr. Malcomson, taking the skull in hand, stated to the 

 meeting that the skull was apparently that of a man sixty years 

 of age, and had been dead for probably fifty years. Although 

 it had been suggested that some violence was used to the person 

 who owned the skull, he did not think there was any mark to 

 justify that opinion. 



