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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 Cyclopterls, 
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. 
11. On a Bone Cave at Lower Warhurton, Kincardineshire. By James 
C. HowDEN, 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 Warhurton, 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 
scapulae and the lighter bones; these are most curiously. 
