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Reindeer's vertebra. Ned Daltoii worked a gallery on the 
other side of the Bear's Den. In it a bed of harder limestone 
dipped northwards, and at the foot of this slope the gallery- 
expanded into low cavities right and left, which yielded bones 
of Bear and Mammoth, chiefly of the latter. In the cavity on 
the west side Dalton found in dark sand, under a cake of 
brecciated sand (which protected it) a huge Mammoth's 
humerus in two pieces. The head was gone, but the shaft 
and distal end when put together were 2 feet 2 inches long, 
and the latter was i foot 10 inches in girth. The latter part 
had the deep indentations of teeth, probably of a Hyaena. 
This is the largest bone we have yet found, and it taxed the 
efforts of both my men to get it out safely ; as it was packed 
into a cavity with limestone blocks, where it had doubtless 
rested through many floodings of the cave. 
The foregoing notes are offered to give some idea of how we 
found the haunts of the Hyaenas and what was in them, and 
to indicate broadly the nature of the record v.'hich is being 
deciphered, a chapter in the far past history of Ireland which, 
to a great extent, is still an unwritten one. 
It is not intended to forestall the systematic report which 
will be presented hereafter to the Royal Irish Academy when 
the collections from this cave shall have been examined by 
Dr- Scharff's critical eye, and when the learning of the 
geologist shall have been exercised upon the complex pro- 
blems this great cave offers. 
I look to that report to correct any errors I may have made 
in naming animal remains upon the spot, or in offering my 
ideas about the sequence of remote events, as well as to in- 
form us of new things that I have not attempted to specify. 
Cappagh, Co. Waterford. 
OBITUARY. 
RICHARD GLASCOTT SYMES, M.A. 
The death of R. G. Symes removes one who took an active share iu the 
elucidation of various problems in the geology of our country, and whose 
careful working out of many complicated areas, more especially in the 
west of Ireland, it appears impossible to improve upon. 
Son of the leading physician of Kingstown, Co Dublin, he entered 
Trinity College, where he graduated M.A. and I^icentiate of Engineering, 
