A BIBLIOGRAPHY 
OF 
IRISH GLACIAL AND POST-GLACIAL GEOLOGY. 
T HE following list of books, papers, and notes bearing on the glacial and 
post-glacial geology of Ireland bad but a small beginning. It originated 
in a few dozen references to records of post-glacial fossils in the North-east of 
Ireland, thrown together for my own convenience. This list was added to by 
degrees, accumulating according to the manner of a snowball, each paper giving 
references to a number of others. Eventually, it appeared to me that if the list 
could be extended, completed, and published, it might prove a saving of time and 
labour to other workers ; and in this thought I had especially in my mind the 
energetic members of the Geological Section of the Belfast Naturalists’ Field 
Club, who have not convenient access to many of the journals, &c., quoted 
below, and on whom Prof. Cole recently urged 1 the importance of getting 
together their local geological literature. 
In order to complete the list, systematic work was necessary, and sets of 
Periodicals and Proceedings of Societies which might contain references to Irish 
geology had. to be carefully gone through. This portion of the work proved 
more extensive and tedious than ;was expected, and indeed had I known how 
much time it would involve, it is doubtful if the present effort would have seen 
the light. But in spite of time and care, I am well aware that my list must 
contain many omissions, though it is hoped that none of them are serious ones. 
Geologists working at any branch of the subjects included in the present com- 
pilation, or at the geology of any particular district, are nearlv sure, among the 
scattered records of Irish geology, to unearth some references which, in my 
necessarily hurried work, have escaped notice. To them I would appeal to 
favour me with a note of such references, in order that, by the publication of a 
supplement, the present attempt may justify its title, and become a complete 
guide to the literature of Irish glacial and post-glacial geology. 
As to the scope of the present list. Although believed to be of Pliocene, not 
Pleistocene age, the so-called “ manure gravels ” of Wexford have been included. 
They are the only marine Tertiary beds in Ireland, and are moreover of late 
Pliocene age, possessing a fauna distinctly related to that of the incoming glacial 
period ; when to these is added the fact that the literature relating to the Wexford 
beds is .much mixed up with that of the succeeding series, the advantage and 
convenience of this inclusion will be apparent. In view of recent papers in the 
Irish Naturalist on caves, and Dr. Scharff’s bibliography of that subject, 
references to caves have been included, even if these references had no distinctly 
geological bearing ; for much cave-exploration remains to be carried out in Ireland, 
as to both their past and present fauna ; and a list of localities is therefore a 
desideratum. 
In dealing with the human period, a difficulty constantly presented itself as to 
1 Irish Naturalist, IV., 49. 1895. 
