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minute moss, Anodus Donianus, discovered by him last summer 

 on Greensand rocks in Colin Glen, and new to the Irish flora. 

 He also handed round examples of Tortula papillosa from a beech 

 tree near Glencairn. This rare moss was mentioned with doubt 

 in the list of the mosses of the North- East of Ireland, published 

 by the Field Club, no specimens being forthcoming at the time. 

 Its detection near Belfast renders it certain that Mr. J. H. Davies 

 was right in referring his Lisburn plant to this species. Mr. Stewart 

 showed other rare mosses, and stated that since the publication of 

 the list referred to five species had been added to the record. 



Rev. George Robinson exhibited some fine specimens of 

 lepidoptera. Amongst these was the clouded yellow (C. edusa), 

 a species usually quite rare in the North of Ireland, but which 

 occurred in considerable numbers during the past summer. 

 Another was the green hairstreak (T. rubi), a butterfly which may 

 be considered as a great acquisition to the cabinet of a local 

 collector. 



The Club, anxious to encourage amongst its members a taste 

 for natural history and antiquarian studies, annually award prizes 

 for collections and sketches illustrative of those subjects. On this 

 occasion a prize was awarded to Mr. William Gault for the best 

 collection of Cretaceous fossils made during the past year. The 

 collection, which was displayed on the table, consisted of a large 

 number of forms, and well illustrated the palaeontology of the 

 Cretaceous epoch, many being good examples of already recorded 

 species, and two at least are new to to the geology of our district. 

 Mr. F. Lockwood obtained the special prize offered by Dr. James 

 Moore, M.R.I.A., &c, for the best two drawings illustrative of 

 archaeology; the subjects were Kirkiston Castle, County Down, 

 and the doorway of Newtownards Old Church, Mr. Lockwood 

 was also awarded the special prize offered by Mr. Wm. Swanston 

 for the best two studies from nature illustrative of geology. The 

 difficulty of treating geological subjects from an artistic point of 



