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history of the Mollusca. The book is well and fully illustrated with 

 two plates contaiuing numerous figures, mostly showing the appear- 

 ances seen in thin sections of the parts under consideration. 



Annual Report and Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists^ Fleld- 



Cluh, 1884-85. Series ii, vol. ii. part v. Svo. Belfast : 1885. 

 The Annual Eeport of the Society's affairs is followed by a pleasing 

 resume of the summer and autumn excursions and of winter indoor 

 meetings. Besides the Address, by Mr. W. H. Patterson, on the 

 ancient literature and history of Ireland, there are notes and 

 papers : — On the Mosses of Mourue Mountains, on the Gilled Fungi 

 of jN^orth Ireland, and on a quantity of Deer's Horns found near 

 Maralin, by the Ilev. H. W. Lett ; on the Lignites and Silicified 

 Wood of Lough jSTeagh, by Mr. W. Swanston, P.G.S. ; on an ancient 

 Helmet of Iron and Bronze from one of the Crannoges of Antrim (?) ; 

 and on the Scale Mosses and Liverworts of Co. Down, by the liev. 

 C. H. Waddell. The meteorological summary for 1885 and list of 

 members &c. complete this part of the ' Proceedings.' Appendix ix. 

 follows, containing : — 



1. " The Recent Ostracoda of Belfast Lough," by Dr. S. M. Mal- 

 colmson. Besides notes on specimens and species, we have here two 

 elaborate tables, showing the distribution of Ostracoda in the Irish 

 Channel and Belfast Lough, with positions, depths, and bottoms of 

 the dredgings, and references to the descriptions and figures of the 

 many known species met with. Six forms new to Britain are 

 recorded ; three of these are new species and are duly described and 

 figured, namely Loxoconclia cuneiforniis, Paradoxostoma truncatum , 

 and Bijihoci/there pavo ; and one new to Britain is also figured, 

 Cytherideis foveolata (pi. xxvi.). Dr. G. S. Brady, having aided the 

 author in his researches, is duly acknowledged. 



2. " The Fimgi of the North of Ireland, Part I.," by H. W. Lett, 

 M.A. (Trin. CoU. Dubl.), after an appropriate introduction enume- 

 rates 581 species, with their localities and references. 



3. " Foramii^ifera of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club Cruise 

 oflp Belfast Lough, in the Steam-tug 'Protector,' June 1885; also 

 Foraminifera found by Dr. Malcolmson at Eockport, Belfast Lough," 

 by Joseph Wright, F.G.S. In this memoir the author, including, 

 with corrected nomenclature, the Foraminifera recorded in his 

 former paper (Proc. Belfast Nat. Field Club, Appendix, 1876-77), 

 enumerates all the species now known on the north-east part of the 

 Irish coast. Besides notes on some of the species he gives a long 

 table showing distribution and relative abundance, and siipplies a 

 plate of twelve of the most interesting species (pi. xxvi.). The 

 help given by Mr. H. B. Brady, F.R.S., in this work, and by Dr. 

 Malcolmson in the illustrations, is acknowledged. 



4. " A List of the Cretaceous Foraminifera of Iveady Hill, County 

 Derry," by Joseph Wright, F.G.S. , is an important addition to the 

 author's researches upon the Microzoa of the Irish Chalk, &c. (Proc. 

 Belfast Nat. Field Club, 1874, Appendix, p. 73). Twenty-five species 

 new to the Cretaceous fauna of Ireland are indicated among the 

 many here enumerated; and five new forms are illustrated, with ten 



