1906. 
Seymour. — Papers 07i Irish Geology. 
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A^. radiatum, was found in the Carboniferous limestone of 
Little Island, Co. Cork. An extremely useful table of syno- 
nyms is given, which will be of inestimable value to museum 
curators, and enable them to bring the nomenclature of this 
portion of their collections up to date. 
The PEND1.ESIDE Series. 
In an account of the distribution of the Carboniferous 
Lamellibranchs in the foregoing, Dr. Hind directs attention to 
the fauna of the Pendleside beds, which he regards as 
homotaxiall}^ superior in position to the Yoredale series. In 
a second paper {GeoL Mag., Aug., 1904) Dr. Hind gives us his 
views as to the areas occupied in Ireland by his Pendleside 
series. These in Co. Dublin succeed the Carboniferous 
Limestone near Skerries. He points out that in the south- 
west of Cork, as in Devonshire, there is a passage from 
Devonian to Carboniferous without a stratigraphical break. 
With regard to the Coomhola grits w^hich were regarded by 
the Survey as Carboniferous, Dr. Hind considers the fauna in 
them to be essentially Devonian. In a more recent paper on 
the same topic {Proc. R.I. A., vol. xxv., sect. B, no. 4, 1905), 
and entitled " On the beds which succeed the Carboniferous 
Limestone in the West of Ireland," we are given the results of 
his investigations in the Counties Clare and Limerick. He 
states that the Pendleside beds (some eighty feet thick in 
Clare) are well represented, and constitute the Upper Lime- 
stone shales of the Survey, the fossils being identical with those 
found at Chokier in Belgium, and in the English Midlands. 
The characteristic fossils of the lowest beds of the Pendleside 
series have, however, not been yet found in Clare. The olive 
grits which overlie the Upper Limestone .shales are equivalent 
to the Millstone Grits, and are largely marine. The paper will 
be of considerable help towards working out the zoning of the 
Irish Carboniferous rocks. 
Age of the Igneous Intrusions of S.E. Ireland. 
Mr. J. V. Klsden {Q. J. G. vol. lix., p. 604, 1905), refers 
incidentally in his paper on the igneous rocks between St. 
David's Head and Strumble Head (Wales) to the age attributed 
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