NOTES AND QUERIES. 
" drift " in Ireland, so far as I know, loelong, like these, to existing species ; 
and amongst the few localities for them of which I have heard, to mention 
the discovery of shells in a fragmentary state in the drift of the Dublin 
Mountains, by Professor Kinahan, and the allusion made by E. Mallett, 
Esq.. at the last meeting of the British Association, to the occurrence of 
whelks found by him in a gravel-pit near Moate, county Westmeath. 
I must apologize for the length of this note, and remain, etc., 
Athlone, August 22nd, 1862. A. B. Wynne. 
FooTPEiNTs IN Carboniferous Eocks. — Sir, — I send you a draw- 
ing of a footprint, which is upon a boulder from one of the rocks of 
WM 
-Vertical cross section. 
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 appears to be an interesting addition to Ichnology. 
footprints from the Forest of D 
Dean and from near Edin- 
burgh (' Siluria,' 2nd edit. p. 
323), are, we think, the only 
known specimens in British 
coal-rocks, besides Mr. Bin- ^. „ ,r , , t i 
ney 's specimen from the Mill- ^.g. 3.-\ ertical longitudinal section, 
stone Grit. In North America there are some still lower in the carboni- 
ferous series. — Ed. Geol. 
EosAUEUs AcADiANUs. — 'Silliman's Journal' for July contains an excel- 
lent description, with figures, of two portions of vertebriE of a new Ena- 
The 
