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On 25th July, to 



COLLIN GLEN. 



Finlay M'Cauce, Esq., J.P., kindly granted the privilege of 

 visiting the glen, and collecting such specimens as might he deemed 

 of value. At twelve o'clock, a number of members left town per 

 rail for Dunmurry, from whence they Avalkedto the entrance of the 

 Glen at Woodbourne, and were joined dui'ing the afternoon by 

 parties who arrived by other conveyances. The steep and rugged 

 banks of this fine glen are richly clothed with ferns, and, in the 

 course of the day, several good varieties of these elegant plants were 

 picked up. Those who came provided with the implements of the 

 geologist made the best use of their time, and succeeded in disen- 

 tombing many relics of past geological eras. The water in the 

 stream was very low, and, in consequence, the thin stratum at the 

 base of the Lias, known as the " bone-bed, " was accessible, and 

 yielded abundance of small scales and teeth of Hybodus, and other 

 ancient Ganoid fishes that peopled the seas at the close of the Liassic 

 period. Further up the Glen, the upper Greensand is exposed in 

 good sections, and here some fair specimens of its characteristic 

 shells were secured — among the rest, the Terebratula Hibernica, 

 figured and described by Mr. Tate from this very locality, and as 

 yet found nowhere else. Some good fish teeth also were obtained 

 in this bed, including specimens representing the genera Corax and 

 Lamna, and a rare palate or crushing tooth of the Ptycliodus 

 mammillaris. At the close of- the proceedings, the party divided, 

 some returning by way of Dunmurry and the railway, while others 

 preferred enjoying the fine evening by walking into town by 

 the Hanaahstown road. 



On the 12th and 13th of August, to 



CUSHENDALL, 



By the Coast Road. 



The long-looked-for rain having set in on the previous day, with 

 every prospect of continuing wet for some time, only fifteen 



