1 6 The Irish Naturalist. January, 



BELFAST NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 



November 7. — Annum, Converzsazione. — The Annual Conversazione 

 was held in the Free Library. At half-past six o'clock tea was provided 

 for the visitors on the ground-floor rooms. In the Reference Library 

 was a display of exhibits which was well up to the average. The 

 collection embraced the following :— Geoeogy — Dr. G. Abbott 

 (Rochester Field Club), magnesian limestone concretions; W. Swanston, 

 New Red Sandstone concretions from Connecticut Valley, U.S.A.; J. 

 Wright, foraminifera from Pleistocene clays, Isle of Man ; C. Bulla, Irisb 

 and American Carboniferous crinoids ; W. J. Fennell, quartz from the 

 Mournes ; R. Bell, cephalopoda from Liassic and Cretaceous rocks of 

 Derry and Antrim; W. Gray, Liassic Cephalopoda, and minerals from the 

 basaltic rocks of Antrim ; J. St. J. Phillips, rock sections (micro.) ; J. Orr, 

 Carboniferous fossils from Ayrshire ; Rev. P. Quail, rocks from County 

 Down ; Miss Blackwood, collection of Liassic fossils (prize). Zooeogy — 

 R. Welch, genus Helix, British and foreign, the genus Clatisilia, British 

 and foreign, shells collected on the Club's excursions, 1900 ; W. A. 

 Green, a year's collecting in Ulster; G. Reilly, a beginner's collection; 

 R. Welch, living specimens of Helix aspersa five years old; W. Gray, 

 reversed specimens of Helix; J. Donaldson, pond-life (micro); H. L. Orr, 

 the genus Cyprcta, British and foreign ; R. Welch, Patella athletica, with 

 coralline growth ; C. Elcock, selections from the Horner collection just 

 presented to the Free Library Museum ; T. Brown, pearls and precious 

 stones; W. H. Patterson, cameos; R. May, cameos; J. Hamilton, shells 

 used as foghorns; F. J. Bigger, shells from the Andaman Islands; R. 

 Patterson, a series of Stoats from Ireland, England, and Scotland, a 

 series of Weasels from England and Scotland, collection of Irish bats, 

 and stuffed fishes and birds; J. Hamilton,, locusts recently taken in 

 South Africa, and other insects recently taken on the Amazon ; 

 W. F. M Kinney, the caterpillar of Hepialus virescens. Botany — Rev. 

 C. H. Waddell, flowering plants, and mosses; Rev. Canon Lett, fungi; 

 W. H. Phillips, illustration of apospory in Athyrium Fiiix-fcemiiia, some 

 recent fern finds; Mrs. Stelfox, marine algae (mounted); Miss M. C. 

 Knowles, rare grasses recently collected ; H. Hanna, algae from the 

 Arctic Seas, phyto-plankton, Atlantic, West Coast of Ireland ; J. H. 

 Davies, growing mosses ; J. Vinycomb, original drawings of plants, by 

 Worthington Smith, F. L.S. ; Major-General Bland, set of illustrations 

 of British fungi, drawn by exhibitor ; Royal Botanic Gardens (Glasnevin), 

 carnivorous plants : F. J. Bigger, the cotton plant ,• N. Carruthers, 

 mounted plants, collected on summer excursions ; Botanical Committee, 

 recent additions to Club's herbarium ; J. Malcomsou, prize collection of 

 plants ; S. A. Stewart, old botanical books ; Richard Hanna, old 

 botanical books ; W. Gray, an old botanical book ; J. Vinycomb, herbal 

 with illustrations by T. Bewick. Antiquarian— The President, original 

 sketches of round towers, by the late W. F. Wakeman ; W. H. Patterson 

 shells from shell-mounds and sand-dunes ; W. Gray, the effect oi 

 decomposition of ancient Irish celts Miss Walkingtou, weavers old 



