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Session. Prominent in this department were Mr. S. A. Stewart's 

 series of neatly preserved objects, collected during a day with the 

 oyster dredgers of Belfast Lough; the diagrams which accompanied 

 Mr. Lockwood's paper on "The Round Towers of Ireland;" those 

 connected with the lecture on " Egyptian Art," delivered before 

 the Natural History and Philosophical Society, by Mr. T. M. 

 Lindsay, of the Government School of Design; and also the 

 diagrams and flint implements illustrative of the paper read before 

 the Club by the Rev. Dr. MTlwaine, " On the Stone Period and 

 Race." Around the tables a number of microscopes were ex- 

 hibited by Dr. MTlwaine, Messrs. Swanston, Anderson, Robinson, 

 Wright, Gray, Tomlin, and other members. Mr. Wright showed 

 a most valuable collection of recent and fossil foraminifera, &c, 

 which were particularly interesting from the fact that he has but 

 recently collected from the Lias and Chalk rocks of County Antrim 

 no less than forty different species. Mr. Wm. Gray, was, as usual, 

 a large contributor, and prominent amongst his exhibits was a 

 special arrangement of the microscope, by which visitors were 

 enabled to see an object through the medium of an insect's eye, 

 and in a space almost as small as a pin's point, to discern clearly 

 some 260 representations of that object. In several of the 

 microscopes were shown micro-photographs, giving a view of the 

 group of the members of the Club, taken at an excursion to the 

 Giant's Causeway. A number of the members' cabinets were 

 remarkable for the ingenuity of their construction, and this was 

 especially noticeable in the one belonging to Mr. Gray, which, 

 though it contained a thousand objects, was so arranged that any 

 one of them could be selected at a moment's notice. Dr. James 

 Moore, M.R.I.A., H.R.H.A., showed several of the largest of his 

 studies from nature. These embraced scenes at the Causeway, on 

 Derry Walls, and in different parts of County Down, and were all 

 painted on the spot. We need hardly say that they received a 

 good deal of attention during the evening, for they one and all 

 displayed a freshness and a power seldom seen even in veteran 

 art. In the antiquarian department, some specimens were shown 

 of a class of objects now, unfortunately, to be met with in most 



