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DUBLIN NATURALISTS FIELD CLUB. 



February 10. — Excursion to Bray Head. — A party of about thirty- 

 five members and visitors left Harcourt Street Station by the 1.30 p.m. 

 train for Bray. On arrival at Bray Station, the party, conducted by the 

 Rev. W. J. Ryan, S.J., proceeded to Bray Head with the object of search- 

 ing for fossils in the rocks which had fallen in the recent landslip, and 

 incidentally of visiting the locality where the new fossils had been found 

 last year by the Conductor. With the kind permission of the Dublin and 

 South-eastern Railway authorities, the members were enabled to reach 

 the scene of the landslip, south of the first tunnel, by proceeding along the 

 railway line from Bray. Mr. Archer, Permanent Way Superintendent, 

 accompanied the party and made himself responsible for its safety. The 

 Conductor demonstrated the geological features of the rocks passed 

 en route, and explained the importance of the discovery of the new fossils 

 found at Brandy Hole in fixing the stratigraphical position of the Bray 

 and Howth Series, which had hitherto been variously referred to the 

 Cambrian and Upper Silurian systems. Specimens of Oldhamia were 

 found by many of the members, but no one was fortunate enough to find 

 fossils of any other type. The day was ideal as regards weather con- 

 ditions, and the members thoroughly enjoyed the excursion. 



February 13. — At the Business Meeting of the Club, which was held 

 at the Royal Irish Academy House, N. Colgan, M.R.I. A., delivered an 

 interesting lecture on " Plant -hunting in the Pyrenees." The lecture 

 was illustrated by about sixty lantern slides. At the close of the meeting 

 Mr. Colgan showed some illustrative plant-specimens. 



NEWS GLEANINGS. 



The Geological Society and Dr. Dwerryhouse. 



At the recent annual meeting of the Geological Society, the President, 

 on behalf of the Society, presented a moiety of the balance of the proceeds 

 of the Lyell Geological Fund to Dr. Arthur Richard Dwerryhouse, D.Sc, 

 F.G.S., Lecturer on Geology, Queen's University, Belfast. In making 

 the presentation. Professor Watts spoke of the services of Dr. Dwerryhouse. 

 In each locality he had discovered something new, and something throwing 

 fresh light upon the conditions that prevailed during the Glacial epoch. 

 He had also been able to pursue inquiries along other lines ; for'instance. 

 the circulation of underground waters, the origin of caves, and the weath- 

 ering of rocks, while in his presidential addresses to the Liverpool Geolo- 

 gical Society he had dealt with far larger geological problems. As a 

 contributor to the Glacialists' Magazine, as secretary for several years of 

 Section C. of the British Association, and as a member of the Committee on 

 Erratic Blocks, he had discharged other duties to the science. Finally, 

 his recent work on geological maps would be of great help in educating 

 students to deal in the laboratory with geological problems which they 

 would have later to face in the field. 



