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partly cut through in making the Kailway from Cork. The slopes 

 of the cutting are now dressed and grown over with grass ; but it 

 may be seen that the banks are mainly formed of sand (with some 

 gravel), precisely similar to some of the lowest deposits of Clay 

 Castle; and numerous white, worn, old-looking fragments of sea- 

 shells may be observed lying on the slopes or slightly imbedded in 

 them ; but while there is nothing to the contrary, the evidence of 

 these fragments being in situ is hardly so satisfactory as that 

 afforded by the former locality. 



The Old Eed Sandstone ground to the north of this is high, 

 rather flat-topped, with abruptly sloping sides and occasional small 

 ravines ; but this abruptness of its lower slopes is all the appearance 

 which can be taken to suggest the remains of old sea- cliffs. 



PosTSCEiPT. — Since the foregoing paper was written, a reply has 

 been received regarding specimens of the flints alluded to, which 

 were submitted to one of the officers of the Geological Survey of 

 England, well qualified to form an opinion about them from his 

 long acquaintance with chalk-districts. He agrees in regarding 

 them as chalk-flints, thinking, from their weathered appearance, that 

 they have been long separated from it. They were first observed 

 by me several years ago, in what I then considered the " di^ift," 

 along this coast to the east of Youghal, near "Whiting Bay. If they 

 are really chalk-flints, are they relics of the denudation which 

 separated England from France ? — A. B. W. 



Decembee 4, 1867. 



Henry PaKrey Stephenson, Esq., M.I.C.E., 15 Abingdon Street, 

 Westminster ; John Dalman Orchard, Esq., Teighmohr, Sandford 

 Eoad, Cheltenham; Ezekiel Williamson, Esq., 6 Goodier's Lane, Re- 

 gent's Koad, Salford; William Carruthers, Esq., E.L.S., Department 

 of Botany, British Museum, and 25 Wellington Street, Islington, IS". ; 

 Thomas Parton, Esq., Mining Engineer, WillenhaU, Wolverhamp- 

 ton ; Herbert JKirkhouse, Esq., Aberdare, South Wales ; Charles 

 Evans, Esq., 3 Devonshire Hill, Hampstead ; John Burham Safford, 

 Esq., Stow-on-the-Wold ; Major Edward Owen Leggatt, Staff Corps ; 

 and Archibald Hamilton, Esq., South Barrow, Bromley, Kent, were 

 elected Eellows. 



The following communications were read : — 



1 . On the Graptolites of the Skiddaw Series. 

 By HESTEr Alleyi^e NiCHOLsoif, D.Sc, M.B., E.G.S. &c. 



[The publication of this paper is unavoidably postponed.] 



(Abstract.) 



The author first describes the geological relations and distribution of 

 the Skiddaw Slates, and notices their correspondence with the 

 Quebec Group of Canada, and then gives a description of the Grap- 



