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gow. Through the courtesy of Mr Geikie and Mr Croll of the 
Geological Survey, I have had the opportunity of examining the 
bones obtained by Mr Burns, which undoubtedly formed a part of 
the skeleton of the animal, some of the bones of which Mr Stirling 
had previously given to me, for I found amongst them the missing 
condyloid epiphysis of the right femur. These consist of one of the 
cervical, and of fragments of other vertebrm, of portions of the ribs, 
of the left occipital condyle, of a portion of the innominate bone 
and acetabulum, and of digital bones, more especially the terminal 
phalanges. 
On a visit to the locality a few weeks ago, Mr Stirling gave 
me the following particulars : — 
In the summer of last year a new shaft was sunk on Towncroft 
Farm, Grangemouth, to reach the coal in that district.* In the 
course of the operations the following strata were bored through : — 
ft. in. 
Surface soil, 
4 
0 
Gravel sand, . 
0 
9 
Blue mud and sand, .... 
. 16 
0 
Channel bed, ..... 
4 
0 
Sand and water, .... 
8 
0 
Bed clay mixed with sand, 
. 11 
0 
Pure red clay, ..... 
. 36 
0 
Soft blue till, 
. 38 
0 
Red sand, ...... 
1 
0 
Blue till, 
5 
0 
Sand, 
1 
0 
Hard blue till, ..... 
. 31 
0 
155 9 
The hard blue till lies on the rock in which the coal occurs. 
* In a paper read before the Geological Society of Edinburgh, May 1869, 
and published in their Transactions, Mr Jas. Croll has given an account of 
the geology of this district; and in a paper read before the Geological Society 
of Glasgow, April 2, 1868 (Transactions, iii. p. 183), Mr Jas. Bennie has 
recorded the results obtained in the course of “ boring” operations in the valley 
of the Clyde near Bowling, the haugh of Balmore, the valley of the Kelvin, 
and round by the south-eastern end of the Campsie Hills into the valley of 
the Forth, near Grangemouth, which reveal that “ a great deep hollow 
stretched from sea to sea, fairly splitting Scotland in twain.” 
