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was passed by acclamation, and the Secretaries were instructed to 

 convey the same to Mr. Robinson : — 



"The members of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, whilst acceding with 

 reluctance to Mr. Hugh Robinson's retirement from the post of Honorary 

 Secretary, which he has held for ten years, desire to express their sense of the 

 most efficient manner in which he has discharged the duties of that office. 

 They believe that it is in no small measure due to his exertions that the Club 

 has obtained its present success, and hope that he may be long spared to mani- 

 fest, in a less burdensome position, the interest which, from the foundation of 

 the Club, he has taken in its work." 



The President requested the members present to make sugges- 

 tions as to places suitable for excursions during the summer, which 

 led to an animated discussion on the merits of various localities, 

 the ultimate decision between the respective claims of each being 

 left to the new committee. 



A communication was received from the Rev. H. W. Lett, 

 describing two cinerary urns sent by C. Waddell, Esq., Drumcro 

 House, County Down, by whom they were recently found, near 

 the limestone quarries on his property at Magheralin. They were 

 found fifteen inches below the surface, nearly in the same spot, and 

 in close proximity to where many other larger urns have from time 

 to time been discovered. They had been placed in the ground in 

 the usual way, mouth downwards, on a flat stone, but without any 

 surrounding chamber, and contained calcined bones. The clay 

 for eighteen inches radius all round bore marks of fire, and the 

 bottom of the excavation was strewn with bones similar to those 

 in the urns, and a thin layer of a black substance. The urns are 

 formed of the red clay of the locality, and are only partially burned. 

 One is 3}in. high and 4in. wide, and rudely ornamented with a 

 kind of incised pattern. The other is 2in. high by siin., and 

 perfectly plain. This one is almost identical with the smallest urn 

 in the Royal Irish Academy Museum. 



A small whinstone celt was found on the 13th March, 1880, in 

 the heart of an ash tree when felled. There was no opening by 



