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Returning to Ballynahinch, tea was provided at Fitzpatrick's Hotel, 

 after which a formal meeting was held, under the chairmanship of Mr. 

 W. H. Patterson, M.R.I. A. Among the business matters transacted was 

 a vote of thanks to the Rev. Patrick Quail, whose extensive knowledge 

 of the locality enhanced the pleasure and profit of the afternoon's 

 ramble. A resolution was also passed strongly in favour of inviting the 

 British Association to revisit Belfast at an early date, as it is now twenty- 

 five years since the last meeting, in 1874. 



Dublin Naturalists' Fiei/d Club. 



July 12— Excursion to Lough Bray.— Some fifty members and 

 their friends, by train, car, and bicycle rode to the head of Glencree and 

 Lough Bra}-. Additional interest was given to the excursion by the 

 presence of the botanical and geological science teachers attending the 

 summer courses in the Royal College of Science. Mr. A W. Davies, in 

 charge of the geological members, gave an account of the origin of the 

 Scalp and on the moraine at Upper Lough Bra)*, and enlarged on the 

 Rev. Maxwell Close's illustrated account'of the origin of the loughs. 



The Ivy-leaved Bell-flower was seen at its best, and the Irish Quillwort 

 was collected in its well-known habitat in the Upper Lough. 



NOTES. 



ZOOLOGY. 



INSECTS. 



Noteworthy Irish Orthoptcra. 



A female specimen otLocusta cinerascens, Fab., captured at the South Aran 

 lighthouse in August, 1898, has been given by Mr. R. M Barrington to 

 the Dublin Museum of Science and Art. This is the common migratory 

 locust of South-western Europe, and occasional specimens have reached 

 Great Britain on several occasions. 



In June of the present year a female of the Mole-cricket, Ctirtilla 

 gryllotalpa, Linn., was sent by Major Bruce, of Toome, Co. Derry, through 

 Mr. R. Welch, who informed me that" it was collected on an old Irish 

 canoe taken out of the bed of Lough Neagh, at the outflow of the Bann 

 at Toome, a few years ago. This is a well-known insect in the south of 

 England, and the presence of a single specimen in the north of Ireland 

 is remarkable. It is to be hoped that its range in this country may soon 

 be more fully known. 



Both of these specimens have been exhibited in the collection of Irish 

 animals on the ground floor of the Natural History building. 



Geo. H. Carpenter. 



