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some of the principal Belfast industries, lent by Messrs. 

 Harland and Wolff, I^td., Combe Barbour, Workman and 

 Clarke, Ltd., Richardson Sons and Owden, Ltd., and 

 Wm. Hwart and Sons, Ltd., the latter of whom exhibited 

 flax in various stages of manufacture. 



A number of geological exhibits were shown in a room 

 adjoining the lecture hall at Section C: — R. Bell, series of 

 Cretaceous fossils from local rocks. Madame Christen, 

 specimens of local and other glacial erratics. J. J. H. Teall, 

 F.R.S., new drift map of the Dublin area. A. R. Dwerry- 

 HOUSE, model illustrating his paper on the underground waters 

 of Yorkshire. J. St. J. Phillips, set of local rocks illustrating 

 basalts and rhyolites of Co. Antrim ; also specimens of 

 copper-pyrites, galena, and pyromorphite from Conlig lead 

 mines,, Co. Down. H. J. Seymour, series of rock specimens 

 illustrating the igneous geology of the neighbourhood of Car- 

 lingford. Prof. W. W. Watts, the national collection (addi- 

 tions, 1902) of geological photographs. R. Welch, series of 

 geological photographs of the North of Ireland, mounted in 

 form suitable for educational purposes. A. T. Metcalfe, 

 some geological photographs. 



In the Botanical Section the leading exhibit was a set of 

 dried specimens illustrating the rarer species of Flowering 

 Plants found in the district, contributed by S. A. Stewart 

 and R. Lloyd Praeger. To this collection Rev. C. H. 

 Waddell added some rare local Brambles, and Nathaniel 

 Carrothers tresh specimens of Equisetuni trachyodon. A 

 large series of Australian plants, beautifully preserved, and 

 illustrating especially the genus Eucalyptus, was shown by 

 Mr. Thomas Steele ; and Mr. James Stirling also showed 

 Australian plants, including Mosses, etc. Prof. Balfour 

 exhibited flowers of forms oi Erica Tetralix, grown in Edin- 

 burgh Botanic Garden, and beautifully mounted in glass. 



In connection with the meeting of the Association, a great 

 deal of much needed work was done at the Natural History 

 collections in the Museum in College Square North, by a 

 band of volunteers, including Robert Patterson, William 

 Swanston, Rev. W. F. Johnson, N. H. Foster, John Cottney, 

 H. L- Orr, and R. Welch. The collections of Irish fossils and 

 rock-specimens were cleaned, re-mounted, and re-labelled. A 



