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from this locality, which were new to the Irish cretaceous rocks. 

 He also exhibited some others which had been since found by 

 him, and which are also new to Ireland — viz., Cristellaria 

 crepidula^ Verneuilina spinidosa^ and Glohigerina aqui- 

 lateralis. This last form was also found by Mr. Elcock in 

 material from other Irish localities. A curious dimorphous 

 form of Textularia glohulosa was also shown, in which the later 

 chambers became wild growing and spreading. 



Mr. D. M'Kee exhibited twenty-five slides illustrative of 

 micro-geology ; also a number of agates, &c., in the rough and 

 polished state. 



Mr. W. A. Firth showed some Diatomaceae from West Indian 

 dredgings, also examples from Barbadoes chalks. These in- 

 cluded some of the rarest species of this beautiful and interest- 

 ing class of objects. 



Dr. Whitla contributed preparations of several disease germs, 

 among which were the cholera microbe and bacilli of typhoid 

 fever. It need scarcely be said that these dangerous spores or 

 germs were dead, and safely sealed up on the slides. They 

 were shown by Mr. Isaac Ward, under \ and yV objectives, and 

 still appeared very minute, although magnified to almost 1,000 

 diameters. 



Mr. Charles Bulla exhibited an extensive series of fossil teeth, 

 principally from the Armagh limestone, and their structure was 

 shown under the microscope by a magnificent set of sectional 

 slices prepared by Mr. Andrew in the manner before described. 

 The Belfast Water Commissioners kindly lent their powerful 

 microscope, and Mr. M'Chesney showed on it a general collec- 

 tion in various departments of natural history. The Club's 

 albums were on the table during the meeting, and were well 

 examined. 



Mr. Richard Niven, of Lisburn, contributed a valuable series 

 of above forty Indian ink drawings of ancient buildings and 

 antiquities in the North of Ireland, which he generously pre- 

 sented to the Club as an addition to the sketch album. 



At nine o'clock a new member was elected, and several 

 announcements were made ; but it was almost ten o'clock 



