144 -^^^ Irish Nafufalist. [ June, 



balance on the wrong side owing to a number of subscriptions for the 

 past year being still unpaid. The election of Officers for the coming 

 year was proceeded with, as follows : — President, Rev. C. H. WaddelIv, 

 B.D, ; Vice-President, Francis Joseph Bigger ; Treasurer, W. H. 

 Phillips; Librarian, Wm. Swanston ; Committee— L M. Bell, W. J. 

 P'ennell, W. Gra)-, John Hamilton, F. W. Lockwood, S. A. Stewart, 

 Miss S. INI. Thompson, John Vinycomb, R. Welch, Joseph Wright ; Hon. 

 Sees., James St. J. Phillips and W. D. Donnan, M.D. 



The prize for the best collection of fossil sponges was awarded to 

 R. Bell. Suggestions were received for Summer Excursions, and a list 

 of places sent forward to the Committee to select from. 



After the business part of the Meeting, "A Note on Foraminifera 

 from Irish Carboniferous Rocks," by Fred. Chapman, F.R.M.S., was 

 read, dealing with the renaming of specimens found in 1849, by M'Coy, 

 and named Nodosaria fusiliniformis (M'Coy). Recent research shows the 

 specimen should be named Daccamina fiisiliniformis. 



The loan collection of slides from the British Association Committee 

 on Geological Photographs was then exhibited as illustrative of the 

 origin of landscape The parts played by deposition, deformation, 

 and denudation were successively pointed out in the formation of the 

 framework on which the "variable constants" of atmosphere, sunshine 

 and shadow, plant life and vegetation built up their effects. 



Geological Section. — At the meeting held on 28th April, a presen- 

 tation of a fossil Nautilus mounted as an inkstand was made to Miss 

 S. M. Thompson, by the members of the Section. In making the 

 presentation, the Chairman (W. J. Fennell) said it was as a slight 

 recognition of the constant service and valuable help rendered as 

 Secretary of the Section for four years that the presentation was made. 

 Afterwards a number of micro-slides illustrating optical figures by 

 convergent polarized light were shown by Jas. St J. Phillips. 



Dublin Naturalists' Field Club. 



April 19. — The President, R. l^.. Praeger, B.A., B.E., in the chair. 

 Mr. G. P. Farran read a paper entitled :—" Snails and Slugs: their 

 structure and habits." The paper was illustrated by living specimens, 

 lantern slides and diagrams. The President, Mr. Hanna, M.A., Dr. 

 Alcock, and Mr. Palmer spoke on the paper. Dr. T. Johnson exhibited 

 a set of coloured botanical diagrams presented to the Botanical Collec- 

 tions of the Science and Art Museum. Mr. Hanna showed a number 

 of seaweeds collected during Easter at Achill. The Rev. Maxwell 

 Close, F.G.S., Treasurer of the Royal Irish Academy, proposed, and 

 Mr. J. C. Robertson seconded the following resolution, which was 

 unanimously adopted : — 



" Having regard to the unanimous Report of the Government Com- 

 mittee of inquiry that a new building is necessary for the work of the 

 Royal College of Science for Ireland, this Club, deeply interested in 

 natural history study, and conscious of the unfavourable position natural 



