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of Mayo, being the first Lord Viscount. The stone at present 

 lies very indifferently protected in Ballintubber Abbey. A 

 second was a curious and very antique inscription from a stone 

 in a graveyard at Teampull na Seacht naneene, County Galway. 

 This inscription has not yet been deciphered. One rubbing from 

 a very small slab was peculiarly interesting, the slab having 

 been recently found lying on the shore at Omey Island, evidently 

 washed from its place by the sea. It has an incised cross on 

 each side, and dates probably from the 7th century. Mr. Elcock 

 also showed a number of rubbings of very interesting crosses 

 from Aranmor and the adjacent county of Galway, several of 

 them of very peculiar type. In reply to a communication of 

 his which recently appeared in several of the Irish papers, and 

 also in the London Times, on the remarkable and unique 

 monuments of the Arran Islands and their rapid destruction, he 

 stated that he had received a letter from the Chief Inspector of 

 Ancient Monuments, and that he would shortly proceed in a 

 gunboat to the islands to take steps for their better preservation 

 in the future. It is gratifying that -this result should follow 

 from the efforts of a member of the Naturalists' Field Club. 



Mr. John Hamilton exhibited some live cocoons of the Atlas 

 moth, a very fine Indian species, which he has succeeded in 

 rearing in Belfast from imported eggs. The care needed in 

 rearing this delicate tropical species in this climate is very 

 great, the larvae having required constant attention for several 

 months. 



Rev. H. W. Lett, M.A., exhibited a number of specimens of 

 Fungi and Mosses. He gave a description of two very minute 

 mosses, Diphiscium foliosum, and Aulacomnion androgynum. 

 He also stated that the recent season had been marked by a 

 great scarcity of the common mushrooom. 



Mr. F. W. LocKwooD showed a drawing of the ruins of the 

 old church of Camlin, or the Crooked Water, near Crumlin, 

 chiefly interesting for the curious arcades along the inside of 

 the north and south walls, which the Rev. Mr. O'Laverty, 

 M.R.I.A., suggests were probably intended for the recumbent 



