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the Dublin Field Club. The first excursion took place on March 17th 

 when, in a steady downpour, a party of nine did "shore-hunting" be- 

 tween Skerries and Balbriggan. The most interesting find was Prasiola 

 stipitata in quantity and in full reproduction. 



The Committee of the Dublin Field Club have arranged their summer 

 excursion programme as follows: — April 25, Bray and Killiney (geo- 

 logical half- day); May 30, Lambay Island; June 20, Bective and the 

 Boyne; July 10, 11, and 13, Cavan ; August 12, Kelly's Glen (half-day); 

 September 5, Brittas Bay, Co. Wicklow; September 20, Woodlands 

 (fungus foray, half-day). The excursion to Cavan, when three days will 

 be spent exploring the many lakes, rivers, and woods of that beautiful 

 county, should prove especially productive, as the district is one almost 

 un worked by the naturalist. The Dublin Club have invited their breth- 

 ren of Belfast to join forces with them on this occasion, thus providing an 

 opportunity for the renewing of many acquaintances formed last year 

 at Galway. 



We extract the following from the official report of the Annual General 

 Meeting of the Geological Society of London, held on February 21st: — 



" In handing a moiety of the Barlow -Jameson fund to Dr. G. J. Hinde, 

 F.G.S. (for transmission to Mr. Joseph Wright, F.G.S., of Belfast), the 

 President (Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S.), addressed him as follows; — 

 Dr. Hinde, the council have awarded the sum of twenty pounds from 

 the Barlow-Jameson fund to Mr. Joseph Wright, in recognition of the 

 valuable services he has rendered to the palseontology, not only of the 

 Carboniferous rocks in the South, but of the Cretaceous and Post- 

 Tertiary deposits in the North of Ireland, and the glacial deposits there 

 and in Scotland. Mr. Wright is the author of numerous papers in the 

 transactions of the Belfast Naturalists' F'ield Club on the Irish Liassic 

 and Cretaceous foraminifera and other microzoa ; he has also prepared 

 and published many lists of foraminifera from the Scottish and Irish 

 boulder-clay and other post-tertiarj* deposits. He has done much good 

 work, extending over many years, when resident in the South of Ireland, 

 in connection with the fossils of the Carboniferous limestone, and, both 

 as regards these and the newer deposits of the North, his specimens 

 have been always available to anyone engaged in writing on the fossils. 

 To Davidson, Rupert Jones, Holl, Brady, myself, and others Joseph 

 Wright's cabinet was ever accessible, and his specimens freely lent for 

 study. I trust that this award will serve to express to Mr. Wright our 

 appreciation of his services, and will act as an incentive to him to 

 continue his useful geological work. 



Mr. Hinde replied as follows : — Mr. President, it gives me great satis- 

 faction to receive this award on behalf of my friend Mr. Joseph Wright. 

 He is unfortunately unable to be present, and has sent the following 

 letter for communication to you : — I desire to express my sincere thanks 

 for the honour conferred upon me by the council of our society in recog- 

 nition of my past work, and for their assistance in the further prosecution 



