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Its leaves are most beautiful objects under the microscope, 

 owing to their being densely papillose on the back. The other 

 is Grimmia Donniana^ of which I got fine specimens with 

 abundant fruit, in all stages, growing in cracks or crevices in 

 schist stones near Newcastle. The first plants of this that I 

 found were on the top of a high wall that I had to get over, 

 and whilst meditating on the easiest way of descending, I saw 

 this little beauty, and, though I took a good gathering, I did 

 not by any means exterminate it. Oligotrichum hercynicum 

 occurs in plenty on the Mourne range. I have found it abun- 

 dant on the granitic and sandy debris all round SHeve 

 Comedagh, and in two instances in fruit. I have it also from 

 Bencrom and Slieve Donard. Another rare moss that I found 

 on Slieve Comedagh is Ancectangium compactum. It grows at 

 1,800 feet on steep wet rocks. On the icehouse above Donard 

 Lodge I found Eucalypta streptocarpa in fine condition. This 

 also occurs on a bridge over the Spinkwee River in Tollymore 

 Park. Fontinalis squamosa appears to have been quite over- 

 looked in the North-East. I have found it in Rostrevor River 

 and elsewhere among the Mourne Mountains ; it is easily dis- 

 tinguished by the leaves being not keeled. I may mention 

 that my specimens have all been submitted for identification to 

 the searching judgment of Mr. Holt, of Manchester. 



Mounted specimens were handed round for the examination 

 of the audience, after which 



Mr. F. W. Lockwood read some notes on several archaeolo- 

 gical remains visited by the Club in the course of the past sum- 

 mer's excursions, and especially mentioned Rathmore Trench, 

 near Muckamore, and the cairn of stones near the Sallagh 

 Braes, known as the Headless Cross. The discussion which 

 followed, in which the vice-president (Canon Grainger, D.D., 

 M.R.I.A.), J. J. Murphy, Esq., and others took part, elicited 

 some valuable information, and the election of a new member 

 closed the evening's business. 



