282 Arists’ Lecture Rooni. 
Belfast mele menpoe to offer exchanges of objects of Na- 
tural History with similar societies in this country and else- 
where, and shes secretary, Mr. James M‘Adam, thus writes 
to the editor of this Journal, under date of August 31st, 1824 : 
“ The Belfast Natural History Society is not long establish- 
ed, but the members have a wish to obtain as much informa- 
tion as possible of the science they profess to cultivate; and 
in order to further their views, they are making a collection of 
the various objects of Na‘ural History. A connexion with 
ther societies will tend greatly to advance their undertaking, 
and they propose exchanging the duplicate specimens” of 
we 
their museum, for those of any other society that is Nig 
to accede to their proposal. A ree may t hus be 
opened, which may serve the interests of both 
“The specimens sent you by Mr. Maclure® : were collected 
in the country to the north of Belfast, and are all connected 
with a secondary, or, as some would call it/a volcanic forma- 
tion. He said that such formations were of rare occurrence 
in the United States, and that specimens of their mineral pro- 
ductions would be acceptable to = cultivators of Natur 
por ins shert immediate neighbourhood, but also from eer 
esteyend, and occasionally from Scotland.” 
19. “Artists? Lecture Room. +—Going into our gas-works 
one day lately, I was surprised to find a small lecture-room 
and laboratory, in which a committee of the workmen lec- 
ture and experiment in turns. They have several articles 
of philosophical apparatus, and the external es of thiags 
1 saw no mene) is abun pepe scientific, btai btained a 
The education«c of the working classes is st resent oceupy- 
ing a large cm of the philanthropists of this cour 
workmen of the Giasgow works Rte et sare ‘two year 
men lecturing to each | other on mechanical philosophy a 
- A box of Irish specimens iorpanied by Mr. Maclure, to ‘the Ameri- 
can Geological Society. 
Pel act nto ed from two letters to the Editer, dated Glasgow, Nov. 9tb- 
and March 22. 1825. 
History there. It is in the power of the Society in Belfast 
to furnish speciméns, not only Sauk re basaltic district which 
