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these ridges of drift, and found that several now stand in the 
Bay, forming long islands and promontories projecting from 
various parts of its shores, and that some have been cut off 
by the sea forming cliffs of light coloured boulder clay richly 
studded with finely striated boulders (specimens and heel- 
ball rubbings of which were shown). The details of the 
position of these ridges, and relations of the cliffs (some of 
which are 50 feet high) to those on the opposite shores are 
explained. 
The soundings between these are also referred to, as they 
show the existence of great bars connecting some of the 
most remarkable of these cliff sections of drift. 
The author concludes that there is evidence of the 
former existence of several ridges of drift extending obliquely 
into the bay, and that some of these may have so nearly 
crossed it as to leave only a sufficient channel for the outlet 
of the river water ; but that the magnitude of the lake thus 
formed would not be so great as the tradition indicates, un- 
less the waters were backed considerably over the plains 
around Galway, which would have been the case had its 
level been only slightly raised. 
He found a popular opinion prevailing that the Aian Islands 
are the remains of a great barrier, but there is no present 
evidence supporting this. 
Mr. W. H. Baily, M.R.I.A., F.G.S., read a paper on 
some Additional Remains of Labyrinthodont Amphibia and 
Fish found in the Jarrow Colliery, near Castlecomer, County 
Kilkenny. He illustrated his remarks with well drawn dia- 
grams, and exhibited some of the specimens clearly defined 
in the coal, showing the vertebrae, head, fins, &c. Some of 
the reptiles were 3 feet 7 inches in length, and the fish 
specimens were beautifully marked in the matrix. 
Mr. W. Pengelly, F.R.S. read the fourteenth report on the 
Exploration of Kent’s Cave. He mentioned that the cave 
was situated a distance of one mile eastward of Torquay, 
and half a mile distant from the bay. It was beneath a hill 
250 feet high. The deposits from time to time were black 
mould, in which were found sheep remains ; under that 
stalagmite, and then cave earth, in which the bones of 
hysenine were discovered ; then crystalline stalagmite and 
breccia, as yet the most ancient deposit found in the cavern. 
In the two latter the bones of bears only were found. The 
hysenine bones were the most numerous. Only one example 
of cave lion and one of fox were found here. Mr. Pengelly 
exhibited a number of specimens of jaw-bones and teeth of 
