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lu the geological section R. Bell's prize collection of zeolites was 

 shown in interesting coLijunctionwith Victorian zeolites presented to 

 the Field Club by the Director of the National Museum at Melbourne, 

 and exhibited by Miss M. K. Andrews, who also exhibited rock speci- 

 mens and a fine set of fossils from the Ballycastle coal-field, presented 

 to the Clubby W. F. de V. Kane. George Donaldson showed fish teeth, 

 ^rom South American Greensand ; William Gray, slabs of marble from 

 Counties Armagh and Down ; Dr. Rusk, clay concretions ; and Joseph 

 Wright, Pleistocene Foraminifera from high altitudes in the neighbour- 

 hood of Belfast. A. R. Dwerr3'house showed a series of thin sections 

 to illustrate the occurrence in rocks of structures due to the solidifi- 

 cation of entectic mixtures of their constituents — eg., quartz and 

 felspar, orthoclase and oligoclase ; a photograph of the limestoue 

 cavern of Gaping Ghyll, some recently-published geological maps of 

 Arran and of parts of England and Wales, and a working model of an 

 air-lift pump, J. A. Stendall had an exhibit of radium nitrate, which 

 excited much interest. 



The exhibitors in the miscellaneous section included Miss Elizabeth 

 Andrews, pottery from lake village at Meare, Somersetshire; flint 

 implements from Toome bar and the Bann ; flint implements from 

 kitchen-middens, Les Eyzies, Dordogne, presented to the Club by 

 W. F. de V. Kane; earl}- edition of " Letters on Basaltes of County 

 Antrim," by Rev. William Hamilton, and '• The Giant's Causeway," by 

 W. H. Drummond. S. H. Douey, W. A. Green, and R. J. Welch 

 showed photographs illustrating summer excursions, 1910; Francis Forth, 

 model specimens of handrailing with drawings; W. A. Green, imple- 

 ments from Fiji, pegeen from Dingle Peninsula; ]\Iiss Olga He3-n, 

 living marmoset from South America ; Mrs. Hobson, sketch of ancient 

 sweathouse near Ballyshannon. by Fred. W. Lockwood ; A. B. Morris, 

 nature photographs; Professor Symington, photographs of megalithic 

 remains atCarnac and other places in Brittany ; Miss L. A. Walkington, 

 ancient candlesticks, cam and moulds for dip caudles ; Ivan Sutherland's 

 exhibit of bauxite and aluminium included the first piece of aluminium 

 produced from Irish bauxite in 1886. 



At nine o'clock a lantern display of views, mainly taken on excursions 

 during the summer 1910, was given by W. Gray, W. A. Green, D. J. 

 Hogg, A. R. Hogg. H. L. Orr, S. H. Douey and R. Welch. Special 

 mention is due to the series of cinematograph films illustrating wild 

 nature shown by Mr. A. R. Hogg. 



The President of the Club, R. J. Welch, M R I.A., then addressed the 



meeting. He expressed pleasure due to the presence of the Lord 



Mayor at the conversazione, and extended a welcome to the delegates 



,from the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club, Messrs. R. LI. Praeger and 



G. O. Sherrard. 



The following new members were elected— the Lord Mayor and 

 Messrs. Beattie, Holroyd, and Weir, LL.B. 



