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R. Wklch read a short note on Helicella znkkarenst's, a rare land shell, 

 which Arthur W. Stelfox, a member, found feeding on the roadside about 

 a mile inland from Rostrevor. This mollusc lives in the Kabylie district 

 of Algiers, and how a specimen came to be found alive in County Down 

 is a mystery. The shell was named only after great difficulty, full-grown 

 specimens being found in the well-known Norman Collection in the 

 British Museum. It was th'is same observer who found a Pyreneen 

 shell alive at Belmont, Belfast, feeding on the roadside, some years 

 ago. 



George C. Gough, A.R.C.S., F.G.vS., read a paper on " Geology and 

 Scenery." The paper was illustrated by a fineseries of lantern slides. 



Wm. Gray, M.R.I. A., read a paper on "The Club's Influence in Pro- 

 moting the Advancement of Science." 



Five new members were elected. 



February 27 — Botanicai. Section.— Rev. C. H. WaddelIv, B.D., 

 delivered the third and last of a series of lectures on the Umhelliferce . 

 Before the lecture, the following resolution, moved by Mr. Waddell, 

 and seconded by Wm. Porter, was passed with much enthusiasm, viz. : — 

 "That the members of the Botanical Section of the B.N.F.C. desire to 

 express their great gratification at the honour recently conferred on 

 Mr. S. A. Stewart by the Linnean Society in electing him an Associate 

 of that body ; and they respectfully tender him their cordial congratu- 

 lations on the occasion." 



March ii. — Geoi^ogicai. Section.— A party of twenty assembled at 

 Castle Junction and proceeded under the guidance of Messrs. Bell and Orr 

 to Whiterock quarries, where some time was spent looking for fossils. The 

 section exposed is in the sides of a mountain ravine cut deeply through 

 the Chalk, Yellow Sands, and the underlying Greensand beds. Heavy 

 rainfalls, such as that of September, 1902, have scoured a deep channel 

 through the talus which has formed in the long disused quarry, and have 

 left a very characteristic fan-talus on the lower ground. The exposure 

 here is of the characteristic Antrim rocks, Upper Greensand and Upper 

 Chalk overlain by sheets of basalt. Details of the section are well given 

 in Dr. Hume's "Cretaceous Rocks of Antrim," Q.J.G.S., vol. liii., p. 587. 

 The Greensand and Chalk are very fossiliferous, and the search of the 

 members was rewarded by their finding many specimens of sea-urchins, 

 shells, fish teeth, sponges, &c. G. C. Gough, F.G.S. , gave a short 

 explanation of the origin of the flint, which occurs here in tabular 

 masses as well as in nodules through the Chalk. A visit was paid to the 

 Ballymurphy brickworks, Springfield Road, where the Keuper Marls are 

 extensivel}' worked for brickmaking. The marls are here intersected by 

 parallel basaltic dykes which now stand up like high walls. These have 

 baked the clay for a short distance on either side, making it quite hard 

 and brittle. The stratified marls are overlain by unstratified Boulder 

 clay to a depth of several feet, and from this deposit marine shells have 

 been procured by some of the members. 



