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record of excellent work carried out in the North-east of 

 Ireland. The " Handbook " which the Club turned out is one 

 of the best of its kind which we have seen — concise, handy, 

 and well illustrated. As the publication of a work of the 

 sort is an important step in the progress of natural history in 

 the North, we give at a subsequent page a critical notice of the 

 book. 



The booklet — for it is much more than an illustrated pro- 

 gramme of the excursion — -prepared b}- W. J. Fennell for the 

 Gobbins excursion, came as a pleasing surprise to many, and 

 was in much demand subsequently as a souvenir. 



The programme of local arrangements and other official 

 literature was ver}^ well turned out, and was much superior 

 to that which have done service at certain former meetings. 



EXHIBITS. 



A conspicuous feature of the meeting was the Temporary 

 Museum got together in the Anthropological Section. This 

 was organised by Dr. Symington, Professor of Anatomy and 

 Registrar, Queen's College, who had the well-lighted dissecting- 

 room cleared out, re-painted and fitted with dust-proof glass- 

 top cases, with the Anatomical Museum wall and table-cases 

 also cleared out, and special labels and cards prepared. These 

 were well filled by exhibits illustrating papers read at various 

 Sections, mainly those at Section H (Anthropology), and in 

 addition by various ethnographic and archaeological, &c., 

 exhibits connected with the North of Ireland, collected by Dr. 

 Symington and R. Welch, who assisted him as Museum 

 Steward for the meeting. The exhibits were accompanied by 

 descriptive labels, each exhibitor being responsible for the 

 accuracy of his own notes. 



Exhibits :— W. J. Knowi^es*, ceUs in various stages of manufacture 

 from the recently discovered prehistoric " celt factory " uearCushendall, 

 typical XUster flint arrow-heads, spear-heads, &c., and some "plateau" 

 implements from Antrim and Kent. Rev. Dr. Buick, a large series of 

 rude flint implements, cores, flakes, »S:c,, from the raised beach at Larne. 

 \V. H. Patterson, rude pottery (fragmentary), bones, worked flints and 

 flakes from prehistoric settlements on the coasts of Down, Antrim, and 

 Donegal. S. F. Mii,i,igan, stone and bronze celts, worked flints, and 



* Exhibits marked with an asterisk were connected with papers or 

 reports read at the Meeting. 



