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examined for Foraminifera and Ostracoda. A very interesting 

 branching Foraminifer, Hyperammina arborescens, occurs here 

 in profusion, and is the first satisfactory record of its occurrence 

 off the Irish coast. Very fine examples of this species were re- 

 cently found by Mr. David Robertson, F.L.S., of Glasgow, off 

 Cumbrae, Scotland. Exceedingly fine specimens of the Pofy' 

 •morphina rotundata — a species hitherto recorded from only a 

 few British localities — are in great abundance. One example 

 of Pssamosphcera fiisca was also found. Among the Ostracoda 

 —an order of small crustaceans — the most interesting finds are 

 Cylherideis foveolata^ which, although previously found in the 

 lough and at Portrush by Dr. S. M. Malcomson, is extremely 

 rare. Several specimens of Bairdia inflata^ a species somewhat 

 abundant on the west coast of Ireland, but rather rare on the 

 east, were also found. 



On 8th August, to 



COLIN GLEN. 



The 1 34th field meeting was held on Saturday, August 8th, 

 in Colin Glen. Upwards of 50 members and friends proceeded 

 by train at 2.15 to Dunmurry, and by kind permission of Finlay 

 M'Cance, Esq., J. P., were allowed to visit such of the grounds 

 as seemed most likely to yield interesting geological and bo- 

 tanical specimens. Colin Glen is well known as one of the best 

 spots near Belfast for the study of our local geology. Not that 

 the geological record to be seen here is of easy interpretation, 

 so that he who runs may read. For the beginner it is quite 

 the reverse. The strata have in long past ages been disturbed 

 and disarranged, and, as the sections made by the river show, 

 are not now in the relative positions in which they were ori- 

 ginally deposited. In some places rocks have slipped down, 

 and are now placed lower than their rightful position. In other 

 cases the vertical movements accompanying those fractures of 

 the strata, known to geologists as "faults," have displaced the 



