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3,—Ist Dec.—Mr. J. J. Murphy—“‘ The origin of or- 
gans of flight.” 
4,—15th Dec.—Mr. W. J. Knowles—** Works of Art 
found in the Boulder clay at Cullybackey ye 
15th Dec.—Dr. H. 8S. Purdon—‘‘ The hair and 
colour of human skin as race characteristics.” 
5,—29th Dec.—Mr. W. A. Ross—‘ Glass-making, its 
history, and the causes of its decline in this 
country.” 
6,—12th Jan., 1870—Mr. W. H. Patterson—“A descrip- 
tion of an ancient stone coffer found at Movilla, 
County Down.” 
Mr, Wm. Grav—“ A notice of the comparative 
forms of Flint Implements in various countries. 
7,.—26th Jan.—Mr. Robert W. Armstrong—“ Ceramic 
Art, and the Pottery at Belleek, County Fer- 
managh.” 
8.—9th Feb.—Rev. Edward M‘Clure—‘‘ Smell and 
Smells.” 
9,—23d Feb,—Dr. Andrews, F.R.S.—" On the con- 
tinuity of the liquid and gaseous states of 
matter.” 
10,—9th March—Dr. J. S. Holden and Mr. Ralph 
Tate, F.G.S,—‘! The Iron Ores associated with 
the Basalts of the North of Ireland.” 
11,—23d March—Mr. Thomas Workman—‘‘ A Month 
on the Prairies.” 
23d March—Mr. Wm. Gray—‘‘On the middle 
Lias near Ballycastle.” 
12,—6th April—Professor J. Thomson, C.E,—* Illus- 
trations of the diffusion of liquids.” 
6th April—Dr. H. Burden—* The Aquarium.” 
13.—27th April—Dr. W. Thomson, F.R.S.—‘ Animal 
Life at great depths in the Sea.” 
From the foregoing list it will be seen that there 
have been thirteen joint meetings, at seven of which 
papers were contributed by members of your own 
Society. Without wishing in the least degree to de- 
tract from themerit of other contributions, your council 
would direct your particular attention to two of those 
enumerated above—namely, one by Doctor Andrews 
‘On the continuity of gaseous and liquid states of 
maiter;’ and the other, by your President—Ur. 
Wyville Thomson, on «Animal life at great depths 
in the sea.” These communications, it is to be ob- 
served, embody the very latest results of the scientific 
labours of their authors, results which are, at the pre- 
sent moment, attracting the profound attention of all 
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