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place on June 23rd, and proved successful, 54 members and 

 friends joined, and it is very satisfactory to state that only a few 

 shillings of the ^5 granted from the funds of the Club were 

 required. A full report of this, as well as of other excursions, 

 appeared in the local papers, and will be found embodied in the 

 volume of Report and Proceedings for the year. Advantage 

 was taken of the delay in issuing the Proceedings for 1884-85 

 to embody in it a list of the Foraminifera of that cruise by Mr. 

 Joseph Wright, F.G.S., and also a list of the Ostracoda then 

 obtained by S. M. Malcomson, M.D. Both these lists are illus- 

 trated with plates, and form valuable contributions to our 

 knowledge of local natural history. 



The winter session was opened by a social meeting, and in 

 addition five ordinary meetings were held, at which seven dis- 

 tinct communications were brought forward. The Secretaries, 

 also, at one of the meetings brought under the notice of the 

 members, the fact, that an effort was being made to have the Old 

 North Gate at Carrickfergus removed. The unanimous feeling 

 of the meeting was that the Club would much regret the re- 

 moval of such an interesting archaeological relic, and the Secre- 

 taries were instructed to convey to the Grand Jury of the town 

 and county of Carrickfergus the sense of the meeting, as ex- 

 pressed in the resolution then passed. This was done, and it is 

 gratifying to know that the gate is for the present safe, but the 

 question of its removal may at any time be revived. Your 

 Secretaries having learned that the Old Cross of Dromore, 

 County Down, which has for a long time remained in a ne- 

 glected state, was likely to be removed from its site on the 

 rebuilding of the Market House, brought the matter before the 

 same meeting, on which they were instructed to write the 

 Dromore Town Commissioners, expressing a hope that the 

 opportunity would be taken advantage of, to have the cross 

 restored, and erected on a suitable site. Your Secretaries 

 learned, in reply, that such was the intention of the Commis- 

 sioners, and that the question of a proper site was under con- 

 sideration. 



