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[Appendix B.N.F.C., 
how far papers on the remains of pre-historic man were admissible in a geological 
bibliography. Thus, while a flint implement found in the stratified marine 
gravels of Antrim, or a bronze celt in a stalagmitic deposit, are objects of 
distinct geological interest, the same cannot be said of a cinerary urn found in a 
kist, or a flint arrow-head which the urn may have contained. But it is difficult 
to draw the line, for geology and archaeology not only meet, but overlap. The 
rule which I have endeavoured to follow is to admit papers which describe the 
mode of occurrence or stratigraphical position of human relics, and to omit papers 
dealing with objects artificially buried, or merely with the affinities or ornament 
of objects found. Thus sand-hill sites, crannogs, cave-deposits, and flint 
implement gravels are included ; but papers 04 such subj ects shade imperceptably 
into others which are purely ethnographical in their bearing. 
In the way of existing bibliographies there was very little to assist me. The 
only papers giving even a tolerably complete bibliography of any part of the 
subjects included in the present paper, or of any district, were Dr. V. Ball s 
list of papers on Irish fossil mammals ( 39 )* and Mr. Hardman’s list of papers 
on North of Ireland geology ( 251 ). The shorter lists of papers given by 
Adams ( 5 , 6 ), Close ( 129 ), Cole ( 136 ), Gray ( 232 ), Hull ( 297 ), M'Henry 
( 492 ), and Scharff ( 607 ), were of course consulted. I made a point of 
verifying every reference by consultation of the original publication, where 
possible; the few papers (4 out of the 767 which have a place in the list) which 
I was not able to consult are distinguished by an asterisk .. 
Subjoined are particulars relating to Proceedings of Societies and to Journals 
systematically examined for references to the subject included in the list, the 
contracted titles used in the list being added in parenthesis : — 
ACADEMIES' PROCEEDINGS , $c. 
British Association for the Advancement of Science : 
Reports , years 1 — 64, 1831-1894. (Brit. Assoc. Reports .) 
Geological Society of London : 
Quarterly Journal, I. — LI., 1845-1895. ( Q.J.G.S .) 
Geologists’ Association, London : 
Proceedings , I.— XIV. pt. 5, 1859-1895. ( Proc . Geol. Assoc.) 
Anthropological Institute : 
Journal, I. — XXV. pt. 2, 1871-1895. (Journ. Anthrop. Inst.) 
Geological Survey of Ireland : 
Memoirs , 120 parts, 1858-1891. 8vo. 
Royal Irish Academy : 
Proceedings, I.— X., 1836-1870; 2nd s. {Science), I.— IY., 1869-1888; 
2nd s. {Polite Literature and Antiquities), I.— II., 1870-1888; 
3rd s., I.— III. pt. 4, 1887-1895. 8vo. (Proc. R I. A.) 
Transactions , I. — XXX. pt. 17, 1785-1895. 4to. {Trans. R.l.A ) 
Royal Dublin Society : 
Journal, I. — VII., 1856-1878. 8vo. (Journ. R.D.S.) 
Scientific Proceedings, n.s., I. — VIII. pt. 4, 1878-1895. 8vo. {Sci. 
Proc. R.D.S.) 
* The numbers refer_to the index numbers in the general list. 
