1877-1878.] 



ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE, 



26TH October, 1877. 



HE Annual Conversazione of the Club was held in the 

 Museum, College Square North, on Friday evening, 26th 

 October, and was numerously attended by the members 

 of the Club and their friends. 



The Museum was tastefully decorated by the committee for the 

 occasion with flags, evergreens, &c, their principal efforts, however, 

 being lavished on the large hall or lecture roOm upstairs, the 

 centre of which was occupied by an artificial palm tree constructed 

 most artistically from fern fronds, &c, by Mr. William Darragh, of 

 the Museum, to whose assistance, in the decorations generally, the 

 committee are largely indebted. 



Amongst the various objects exhibited was the collection of 

 Cretaceous fossils made by Mr. William Gault, and for which the 

 Club's prize was awarded, containing over 300 specimens, illustrat- 

 ing a very large number of species and genera. This collection is 

 one of the best that has been made from the Irish Cretaceous rocks, 

 and includes many very rare forms, some of which are new to our 

 Irish strata. Mr. Gault also exhibited a number of beautiful speci- 

 mens of chalcedony, semi- opal, amethyst, &c, all obtained from 

 the old volcanic vent at Rathfern, near Carnmoney. 



