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coins of Edward VI., Mary, and Queen Elizabeth. Of the latter 

 there were examples of no less than twenty-three mintages from 

 1 56 1 to 1594. The greater portion of the coins were sixpences. 

 Mr. Thomas Darragh brought under the notice of the meet- 



Since the abstract of my paper was written, Professor Hull, Direclor of 

 the Geological Survey of Ireland, has published his work on "The Physical 

 Geography of Ireland," in which he has again erroneously referred to the 

 worked flints of Larne and Kilroot as " Palaeolithic. " He also incorrectly 

 describes the raised beach of Larne as " composed of stratified and water-worn 

 gravel, with numerous blanched, marine shells, and with flint-flakes of human 

 workmanship ;" and concludes from " the presence of the worked flints, associated 

 with the shells in the stratified gravels at Larne and Kilroot, that the coast has 

 been raised since the occupation of 'the British Islands by the ancient Celtic tribes" 

 In my opinion all this is untenable, inasmuch as the gravels are not mixed 

 with worked flints, nor are the latter associated with marine shells ; the 

 worked flints are only found on the surface, and up to the present there is no 

 evidence whatever to show that the worked flints of Larne, Kilroot, or any 

 other part of Ireland are of the Palaeolithic age. — William Gray. 



The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Club was held in the 

 Museum, College Square, on Wednesday evening, 18th April. 



