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such. Unusual interest was shown in this evening's proceed- 

 ings, and the hope was expressed by many of those present 

 that a similar meeting would be repeated in following years. 



Your Committee avail themselves of this opportunity of 

 thanking all those who assisted during the past year in carry- 

 ing out the aims of the Club, and would especially name the 

 York St. Flax Spinning Co. for permission to visit Muckamore 

 Glen, the Turnley family for liberty to enter the grounds of 

 Drumnasole, and C. F. Moutray, Esq., for the privilege of 

 holding a fungus foray in the grounds of Killymoon. The 

 Committee also express their best thanks to William M'Millen, 

 Esq., Loy House, Cookstown, for his great kindness on the 

 occasion of the excursion to his neighbourhood. 



The Annual Report and Proceedings for the past year are 

 now in the hands of the members, and it will be found to be 

 one of the most valuable ever issued by the Club, the appendix 

 containing a list of local Coleoptera, and an important contri- 

 bution to our knowledge of the Archaeology of Ulster. 



The following is a list of the papers read during the session, 

 abstracts of which, together with notices of the excursions, will 

 be embodied in your proceedings : — 



18th Nov. I.—" Opening Address," by the President, W. H. Patterson, M.R.I.A. 



, , P^ TT ) *' ^^ ^^^ Origin and History of the Siliciiied Wood of Lough 



( Neagh," by Wm Swanston, F.G.S. 



^.^ I *♦ Notes on an Ancient Helmet in the Belfast Museum," by J. 



" * 1 Starkie Gardner, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c. 



. _ TTT f " Notes on the Gilled Fungi collected in the North of Ireland," 



20th Tan. IV. { " 



■' \ by Rev. H. W. Lett, M.A., T.C.D. 



, P , V / *' ^" *^^ Scale-Mosses and Liverworts of the County Down," by 



'^ ^ * ■ I Rev. H. C. Waddell. 



■^■j J " Notes on some hitherto unobserved Foraminifera from the 



" ■ I Chalk Powder of Keady Hill," by Jos. Wright, F.G.S. 



, lu VTI I Exhibition of Microscopic Objects and Mounting of Specimens by 



t a number of ourselves. 



The Committee also take this opportunity of thanking the 

 ladies who so graciously assisted at the tea tables on the even- 

 ing of the social meeting, opening of the Winter Session. 



