Aucust 28, 1902] 
NATURE 
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Mr. and Mrs. John Brown will give a garden party at | 
Longhurst on September 11 (by invitation). Their guests | 
will be invited by Mr. G. Herbert Brown, J.P., to inspect 
St. Ellen damask and linen weaving works close by. 
Mr. W. S. Bruce, of the Scottish Antarctic Expedition, 
has arranged that the exploring ship Sco//a, recently fitted 
out, shall, before her departure, visit the harbour during 
the meeting for inspection by those attending it. The | 
ship is elaborately supplied with instruments and ap- 
paratus for zoological, oceanographical and other branches 
of research, which will be in charge of her scientific staff. 
The inspection of the ship and her outfit will no doubt 
form a most interesting incident of the meeting. 
Under the able management of Prof. Symington, good | 
progress has been made with the loan exhibition, the | 
following contributions to which will be found of special 
interest :—- 
From Mr. W. J. Knowles, a collection of specimens 
illustrating the various stages in the manufacture of stone 
implements collected from the remains of an ancient flint 
implement factory at Cushendal. : 
From Mr. R. Welch, a collection of Irish jaunting cars 
illustrating the development of that vehicle from a 
primitive form ; also series of photographs illustrative of 
Irish ethnology, local 
Enzymes,” by Dr. E. F. Armstrong ; “The Alkylation 
of the Sugars,” by Prof. T. Purdie, F.R.S., and Dr. 
Irvine ; “ The Colour of Iodine containing Compounds,” 
by Miss Ida Smedley; “On Zirconium Hydrate and 
other Colloids from Elements of the Fourth Group,” by 
Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., and Mr. W. Hibbert ; ‘‘On 
some Optical Properties of Tellurium,” by Dr. J. H. 
Gladstone, F.R.S.; “On the Telluric Distribution of the 
Elements in Relation to their Atomic Weights,” by Mr. 
W. Ackroyd ; “On the Undesirability of Establishing 
Standard Analytical Methods,” by Mr. B. Blount ; “ On 
the Corrosion of Copper by Sea Water and on the 
Detection of Traces of Impurity in the Commercial 
Metal,” by Dr. E. A, Letts; “On Experiments to 
Ascertain the Amount of Carbonic Anhydride from Sea 
Water by Air,” by Dr. E. A. Letts and Mr. W. Caldwell ; 
| “On the Absorption of Ammonia from Water by Algz,” 
by Dr. E. A. Letts and Mr. J. S. Jotton; “On the 
Action of Distilled Water on Lead,” by Dr. F. Clowes ; 
“On the Decomposition of Urea,” by Dr. C. E. 
| Fawsitt. 
The following description by Mr. R. Welch of the new 
path along the face of the Goban’s Cliffs will be of 
interest to visitors, 
geology and of the more _— a 
special trade processes | 
of the north of Ireland. | 
Irish _ethnographical 
collections will also be | 
exhibited by Dr. Scharff, | 
Mr. S. F. Milligan, Mr. | 
W. H. Patterson and | 
Miss E. Davis. 
The skeleton of the 
Irish giant is being kindly 
sent for exhibition from 
Trinity College, Dublin. 
In connection with 
Section K (Botany), an 
interesting collection of 
Australian plants will be 
exhibited by Mr. Thomas 
Steel, as the representa- 
tive of the Linnean 
Society of New South 
Wales. 
Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger 
will exhibit a number of 
rare Irish plants. 
The collection of ap- 
paratus employed by the 
late Prof. Andrews in his researches on the continuity of | 
the liquid and gaseous states and on heats of combina- 
tion, &c., is being carefully arranged by his daughter, 
Miss Mary Andrews. 
Much private hospitality has been offered, but the large | 
number of distinguished members who have signified 
their intention to attend has thrown considerable strain 
on the committee having charge of this department. 
A forecast of the papers to be brought before 
most of the sections has already been given 
(August 7, p. 344; August 14, p. 377; and August 21, 
p- 397). We have now received the following list of 
papers arranged for the Section of Chemistry :—The 
president of the Section, Prof. E. Divers, F.R.S., is 
expected to take the atomic theory as the subject of his 
address at Belfast. A paper will be read by Dr. G. T. 
Morgan “On our Present Knowledge of Aromatic 
Diazo-compounds,” and Dr. A. W. Crossley will give a 
paper “On Reduced Benzene Derivatives containing a 
Single Nucleus.” The following papers, amongst others, 
will also be read ;—“ Present Synthetical Research on 
the Glucosides” and “The Synthetical Action of 
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Fic. 1.—The ‘‘Goban’s Cliffs” path at the Goban’s Viaduct over the Man-o’-War Gully under the Gullery. 
A Path around the Goban’s Cliffs. 
A fine cliff path along the base of the basaltic marine 
precipices near Belfast is now rapidly approaching completion ; 
Mr. Wise, the engineer of the railway company—the B. and 
N. C. R., which is making the path under great difficulties— 
is putting forth every effort to have it ready before the British 
Association meets in Belfast. These mural cliffs of Lower 
Basalt lavas, in part semi-columnar, in part highly vesicular, 
with their many caves, will now for the first time be accessible 
to the geologist and the naturalist generally. At low tide many 
rock pools and natural aquariums will be available ; some of these 
are,coated with the pretty pink Lithothamnion, and have, like 
the pools of the Antrim Coast generally, a very varied fauna 
and flora. The path is carried over the many ravines at the 
mouths of caves by steel girder bridges ; the troublesome wide 
gully at the ‘* Man o’ War” sea stack has been ‘* negotiated ” 
by a lattice girder, oval in section, 75 feet long, through which 
the path runs to the stack, thence by a flat girder bridge to the 
main cliff again. 
Owing to the very heavy seas which sometimes break against 
the cliffs and run far up, the bridges have been set as high as 
possible ; the ‘‘Goban’s Lattice Bridge ” is almost 30 feet above 
the sea. The path is tunnelled through one projecting spur of 
the cliff and runs through a long cave at another, while at the 
