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due to desiccation, curious worm-trails, &c, and indicating 

 littoral deposition. The specimens sent are, I consider, 

 very interesting, though obscure ; and I hope that some one 

 of our Society may be able to determine the species. I have 

 not a copy of Colonel Portlock's " Memoir on the Irish De- 

 vonians" to refer to ; but I think it likely that these fossils 

 will be found to agree with some of the Irish species described 

 by him. 



The fossils exhibited were considered by the members 

 present to be specimens of Gyclopteris, 



Mr C. W. Peach stated he had specimens of Cyclopteris, 

 which he had found at John o' Groat's, in the north of Scot- 

 land. 



II. On a Bone Cave at Lower Warburton, Kincardineshire. By James 

 C. Ho wd en, M.D. Communicated by James M'Bain, M.D , R.N. 



In the year 1847 a cave was discovered in a range of trap 

 cliffs on the farm of Lower Warburton, in the parish of St 

 Cyrus, Kincardineshire. The entrance to the cave faces 

 due south, is about half a mile from the estuary of the 

 North Esk, and fifteen feet above high-water mark. A 

 short account of it was given by Mr Alexander Bryson in 

 1850, and will be found in the " Edinburgh New Philo- 

 sophical Journal" for that year. He says — "The mouth 

 of the cave, on the occasion of my visit, was entirely filled 

 with soil, richly stored with the bones of the ox, deer, 

 badger, hare, rabbit, and other smaller rodents, also a few 

 bones of birds. Immediately at the mouth or lowest part 

 of the cave, the bones consisted mostly of those belonging 

 to the larger ruminantia ; while at the height of three feet, 

 the remains were those of smaller rodents, so particularly 

 arranged as to attract our notice. Although the whole mass 

 of rich mould filling up the mouth of the cave, and extend- 

 ing to the height of ten feet, teems with the remains of 

 animals, yet a degree of stratification obtains. The skulls 

 of the rat and other smaller rodents are mixed most liberally 

 and promiscuously through the whole mass ; not so the 

 scapulse and the lighter bones ; these are most curiously 



