NOTES AND QUERTES. 



432 



" drift " in Ireland, so far as I know, holon^^, like tlicse, to existin*:^ species ; 

 and amongst tlie fcu' locjililies foi- tliciii oF wliicli I liavo lieard, to iiieiilion 

 the discovery of shells in a IV;ii;iiiciil,;i ry slate in the di-ift of the Dublin 

 Mountains, by Professor Xinalinn, and (lie alhisioii iiuuh; by ]v. Alallett, 

 Esq.. at the last nieetiiiij^ of the Ih'ilisli Association, lo the occurrence of 

 whelks found by him in a ijfrav^el-pit near Aloate, c(junty Westrneath. 

 I must apologize lor I lie length of this note, and remain, etc., 

 Athlone, AH(]asl 2'2.iid, 1862. A. B. Wynne. 



FooTPEiNTs IN Caiiboniferous E-ocks. — Sir, — I send you a draw- 

 ing of a footprint, which is upon a boulder from one of the rocks of 



Yv'i. 2. — Vertical cross scctiou. 



Fig. 1. — Ground-plan of footprint. 



the carboniferous series. It was found in the drift, which overlies in part 

 the Magnesian Limestone 

 and the uppermost members 

 of the carboniferous strata, 

 and which is entirely com- 

 posed of carboniferous rocks. 

 The boulder is a hard sand- 

 stone, bearing traces of Stig- 

 maria. — Yours truly, T. 



This footprint a])pears to be an interesting addition to Ichnology. The 

 footprints from the Forest of D 

 Dean and from near Edin- 

 burgh (' Siliiria,' 2iid edit. p. 

 323), are, we think, the only 

 known specimens in J'riti>h 

 coal-rocks, besides ^tr, J^in- 

 ney's s])ecimen from the jM ill- 

 stone Grit. In North America there are some still lower in the carboni- 

 ferous series. — Eu. Gkol. 



EosAUKUS ACADIANUS. — 'Silbnian's Journal' for July contains an exct>l- 

 lont description, with figures, of (wo p(n-tions of verlobriu of a m w Ena- 



FitC. 3. — A'crtical longitudinal section. 



