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resources and archaeological remains, of the entire surrounding dis- 

 trict, have been thus so successfully laid under contribution, that the 

 perusal even of the abstracts of papers above referred to, and given 

 in the successive reports of the society, will be found to convey an 

 amount of information as gratifying and useful, as it is creditable 

 to the members of the Club who have contributed them. 



While making this reference I feel bound to specify the list of 

 the Irish Liassic Foraminifera, which is found in an appendix to 

 the report of 1871, by Mr Joseph Wright, one of our most inde- 

 fatigable and distinguished fellow-members. Those who had the 

 pleasure of hearing the paper read by Mr. Wright, at the recent 

 meeting of the British Association, wherein species of Foraminifera, 

 from the Chalk formation of Antrim, were identified and figured, 

 will share with me the satisfaction which so many others enjoyed 

 at the attention and well-merited praise bestowed on its author by 

 the entire geological section present. 



Reference is also due here to the list given in the same appendix, 

 of the fossils of the Estuarine Clays of the counties of Down and 

 Antrim by another valued member of our body, Mr. S. A. Stewart, 

 on whom, as most present are aware, the distinction of Fellow has 

 been bestowed by the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. I may 

 also add, with much pleasure, that Mr. Stewart has recently 

 added another species to our rare mosses in his discovery of 

 "Tayloria serrata," on Benbradagh Mountain, near Dungiven, 

 County Derry. This interesting addition to Irish muscology has 

 been fully identified by Dr. Moore, of the Royal Botanical Gardens, 

 Glasnevin — the only other habitats of the plant known in Great 

 Britain being some one or two of the steep and bleak mountains 

 in Scotland. 



With these gratifying proofs of success in scientific pursuits by 

 members of our Club before us, to which, indeed, others might be 

 added, I may well offer to its present meeting my sincere con- 

 gratulations. My reference to the occurrences of the past year 

 would be incomplete without some further allusion to the visit of 



