1878-1879.] 



THE 



ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE 



AS held on Friday Evening, 1st Nov., in the Museum, and 

 was largely attended by members and their friends. As 

 is well known, the objects of the Club are the study of 

 natural history, geology, and archaeology in the North of Ireland. 

 The local collections exhibited on the present occasion were 

 of much interest, and were, for the most part, collected by 

 the members during the past session. It is gratifying to find 

 that the study of these subjects is on the increase in this 

 locality, and this was at once manifest from the collections 

 exhibited. The Club have at all times taken a warm interest 

 in the study of archaeology, and in this department Mr. 

 William Gray, M.R.I.A., exhibited a variety of ancient American 

 stone implements, with some antique Irish forms for comparison. 

 The Rev. Dr. Grainger, of Broughshane, exhibited a series of pre- 

 historic remains, found by him on the 19th October in ancient 

 graves disclosed by the fall of material in the quarry near the 

 " Madman's Window," Glenarm. Among other things it contained 

 many rude flints and stones, which had probably been used by the 



