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IRISH SOCIETIES. 



ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Recent gifts include a Green Monkey from Mr. C. A. Lorenzer ; Ocelots 

 from Mr. G. L. Andrews and Dr. Robinson ; a Civet Cat from Dr. H. 

 Tweedy ; ten Prairie Marmots from Sir E. Loder ; a Mynah from 

 Mr. J. S. Bernard ; Sparrow-hawks from Miss Rose Finch and Mr. W. P. 

 Murphy ; a Merhn from Capt. T. Hone ; an Osprey from Mr. A. F. Mont- 

 gomery ; a Kingfisher from Mr. E. Fennessy ; a Curassow from Sir Roger 

 Casement, and a Little Grebe from Mr. J. Battersby. Two Sooty 

 Mangabeys, a Brown Capuchin Monkey, two Common Marmosets, an 

 Indian Fruit Bat, a Ratel, two Prevost Squirrels, a Kestrel, and a Pied 

 Wagtail have bee 1 bought for the collection. 



After four years' tenure of the office, Capt. L. C. Arbuthnot has 

 resigned the Superintendency of the Dublin Zoological Gardens. Dr. B. 

 B. Ferrar has been appointed by the Council to the vacant post, and has 

 now entered on his duties. 



BELFAST NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 



Geological Section. — September 16. — Excursion to Coi.in Glen. — 

 There was a large attendance of members, who left Belfast by Falls Road 

 tram, and on arrival at Milltown, walked by the Glen Road, to the bridge 

 over the river. Owing to repeated " faulting " the Trias, Lias and 

 Cretaceous rocks were traversed several times along the course of the 

 stream, and Mr. Bell pointed out various interesting exposures on either 

 side. Many of the characteristic fossils were obtained. The last section 

 examined was at the waterfall, where the yellow sandstones are seen 

 faulted against the Glauconitic Sands and Keuper Marls. A very fine 

 photograph showing the waterfall and adjacent faulted Cretaceous and 

 Triassic strata, taken by the President of the Field Club, is reproduced 

 in the 1904 Survey Memoir of the Geology of the country around Belfast. 



Geological Section. — September 23. — Excursion to Glenshesk. 

 — The party was under the leadership of Dr. Dwerryhouse. A start was 

 made from Annoy, whence the niembers^drove through the valley between 

 Knocklayd and Croaghan. The valley runs nearly east and west, and 

 falls slightly in the latter direction. At its upper (eastern) end, it is cut 

 off by Glenshesk (running from south to north) a much deeper glen, and 

 thus under present conditions there is no possible catchment for a stream 

 capable of excavating the valley, which is in point of fact, now almost 

 streamless. The leader showed how this valley had been cut by the overflow 

 of a lake which temporarily existed in Glenshesk, and whose waters were 

 held up by the ice of the Firth of Clyde glacier, which at that time stood 

 across the mouth of the glen, in much the same way as the great Alctsch 

 Glacier in Switzerland holds up the waters of the Mergilen Sea. Crossing 

 on to the right (eastern) bank of the Glenshesk river, the party examined 



