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The ballot having opened, the following were declared duly elected 

 as — 



Ordinary Members: — 1. Charles Churchill, Jun. Fresh. ; 2. Sir Rich- 

 ard Griffith, Bart., LL. D. ; 3. Professor M'Dowel, M.D. ; 4. Rev. W. 

 Pakenham "Walsh, A. M. ; 5. George Orr Wilson, A. M. 



Corresponding Members : — 1. W. King, Professor of Geology in the 

 Queen's College, Galway ; 2. K B. Ward, F. R. & L. S. S., London. 



The Rev. Professor Haughton gave notice of the following Motion : 

 — That in Section IX. of the Rules of the Association the word " three" 

 be substituted for the word "five." 



The Meeting then adjourned. 



FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1858. 



Professor W. H. Harvey, M.D., M.R.I. A., F.L.S., F.R. S., 



President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of last Meeting having been read, were approved of, and 

 signed by the Chairman. 



Dr. E. Perceval Wright read the following paper by J. Grainger, 

 A. M., Corresponding Member : — 



ON THE SHELLS FOTJND IN THE POST-TERTIARY DEPOSITS OF BELFAST. 



There has been, at least as far as I am aware, but little published 

 respecting the shells found in the alluvial deposits in the neighbour- 

 hood of Belfast. In the preface to Mr. Bryce's " Tables of Simple 

 Minerals, Rocks, and Shells," it is stated that contributions were made 

 to his "List of Shells found in the Counties of Down, Antrim, and 

 Deny," by Dr. M'Gee, from the excavation made in 1830 for the basin 

 which is at present called the Prince's Dock. There is, however, no 

 distinction made in the list between those dead shells and the rest 

 which had been met with in the living state. Another notice is con- 

 tained in a paper read by Mr. Mac Adam on 12th June, 1850, before 

 the Geological Society of Dublin, and published in their Journal, in 

 which there is given a list of the shells found up to that period. This, 

 which was but a bare list of names, was kindly acknowledged by Mr. 

 Mac Adam as having been furnished to him by me, and contained names 

 of no species which had not been met with by myself. The species enume- 



