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illustrated with an exceptionally fine set of lantern slides. A discussion 

 took place, the speakers including Prof. Symington, M.D., F.R.S. : Prof. 

 Gregg Wilson, D.Sc, and C. M. Cunningham. 



November 27. Zoot.ogicaTv Section. — Robert Welch, M.R.I. A., in the 

 chair. The Vice-President (Nevin H. Foster, M.B.O.U.) read a short 

 paper entitled "An Elementary Outline of Zoology." Through the 

 kindness of Prof. Gregg Wilson he was enabled to illustrate his remarks 

 with a number of preserved specimens from Queen's College Museum. 

 A discussion followed the close of the paper. The following members 

 took part : — R. Welch, T. Dewhurst, A. Deane, J. N. Milne, J. Carson, 

 Rev. J. Shiels, and W. H. Gallway. 



December 10. — A special meeting was held in the Museum, the Pre- 

 sident (Robert Patterson, F.L.S.) in the chair. The object of the meeting 

 was to bring before the Club the work done during the week spent with 

 the Field Club Union in Cork last July. The various speakers showed a 

 number of lantern slides, which had been prepared for the evening. The 

 following members read papers : — Nevin H. Foster, on the botany and 

 terrestrial isopods of County Cork ; Robert Patterson, the ornithology 

 of the district, and (in connection with the visit to the Mammoth Cave) 

 anaccount of the distribution of the Norway and Arctic Lemmings; 

 Robert Welch, on the geology and land and freshwater mollusca of 

 the county; J. Iv. S.Jackson, on the Mammoth Cave at Buttevant; W. 

 H. Gallway, on the archaeology of the districts visited. The attend- 

 ance was large. 



December 14. Botanicai. Section — H. C. Marshall in the chair. 

 Two short papers were read by members. The first, entitled *' Local 

 Botanical Field Work in 1907," by W. J. C. Tomlinson, in which an 

 account was given of the finding by the speaker of Spira^ithes Roman- 

 zoffiaua, Vicia Orobus, &c. ; the second, by Sylvanus W>ar, on " Cluster-cups 

 and Microscopic Fungi." 



December 17.— The President (Robert Patterson, F.L.S.) in the chair. 

 Thomas Pi.unketT, M.R.I.A,, read a paper on the "Tombs, Temples, 

 and Pyramids of Bgypt," illustrated by a large number of lantern slides. 

 The attendance was remarkably large, many people being unable to gain 

 admission to the lecture room. 



January 21.— The President (Robert Patterson, F.L.S.) in the chair. 

 At the outset, the President referred in feeling terms to the late Lord 

 Kelvin, and drew the attention of the members to the proposed pubHc 

 memorial. E.J. M'Kean, B.A., B.L., read a paper on "A Holiday Trip 

 to West Kerry," dealing with the archaeology and folk-lore of the 

 district. The next paper was by John Harbison. B.A., on " Hydra ; its 

 Movements and Reactions," illustrated by living specimens, diagrams, 

 and lantern slides. The lecturer, by means of the blackboard, described 

 the construction of Hydra and its somewhat complicated movements. 

 A point which had not hitherto been noticed in the movements of Hydra 

 was that it did not contract en masse, but in fractions, one-third or one- 

 quarter of its length at a time. As Prof. Gregg Wilson had pointed 

 out to him, this might be due to a segmental arrangement of muscle 



