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is unfortunate, as field work constitutes one of the main objects 

 for which the Club was founded, and is one of the principal 

 means of exciting and maintaining an interest in archaeological and 

 natural history studies. 



The following is a list of the Excursions arranged for the Session, 

 and detailed accounts of each are appended : — 



25th May. Dundrum and Newcastle. 



1 8th and 19th June. Carlingford. 



29th June. Crow Glen. 



24th July. Glenarm. 



17th Aug. Crumlin River. 



7th Sept. Roughfort and Carnmoney. 



The alteration in the time of holding the Conversazione, which 

 the Committee considered it advisable to make some time ago, has 

 been continued, and the result has proved eminently satisfactory, 

 the attendance at the Conversazione of the past year having 

 been much larger than at the latter of those held at the close of the 

 Winter Session. 



During the winter months meetings were held as usual in the 

 Belfast Museum, at which a number of interesting papers were 

 read, having special reference to Irish Natural History and Archae- 

 ology, and which it is hoped proved instructive and tended to 

 further the purpose of our organisation. 



The following is a list of the papers, abstracts of which appear 

 in the Proceedings : — 



1878. 

 26th Nov. Opening Address by the Vice-President (Mr. William Gray, 



M.R.I.A.). 

 17th Dec. " On the supposed Pliocene Fossiliferous Clays near the shore 



of Lough Neagh." By Mr. William Swanston, F.G.S. 

 ,, "On Rude Stone Monuments in Antrim, with notes on the 



Ancient Graves recently discovered near Glenarm." By Mr. 

 William Miller. 



