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scientists in overhauling their tackle, and carefully labelling 

 and preserving the treasures secured on the previous day. On 

 Thursday the weather continued boisterous, and a very high 

 sea was running outside, but some successful trawling was 

 done in Berehaven and Bantry Bay, and in the afternoon, as 

 the wind was falling and the barometer continued to rise, 

 another attempt was made to reach deep water, but when the 

 steamer had reached a point ten miles west of the Bull Rock, 

 stress of weather again necessitated return to land. The fol- 

 lowing day a flying visit was paid to Baltimore, and then a 

 south-easterly course was taken, and some trawling done with 

 good results on the fifty fathom line ; and here the lecturer 

 gave a graphic account of a narrow escape from collision with 

 a White Star liner, which came down on them while enveloped 

 in a thick fog, and was very near sending them to the bottom. 

 The night was spent in the pretty harbour of Glandore, and on 

 Saturday, after some successful dredging south of Galley Head, 

 in wind and pouring rain, the steamer's course was set for 

 (Jueenstown, which was reached at three o'clock. The lecturer 

 concluded by giving a more detailed account of some of the rarer 

 forms obtained during the cruise, referring especially to the For- 

 aminifera which occured, to exemplify which a number of large 

 diagrams, artistically executed by Mr. Joseph Wright, F.G.S., 

 were displayed on the walls. The paper was further illustrated 

 by samples of the dredging ropes and sounding wire, by ex- 

 amples of some of the Echmoids obtained, and by a large chart 

 showing the courses of the steamer on the present, and also 

 on the two previous expeditions, while the dredge and deep- 

 sea sounder were also exhibited, and their use and mode of 

 working explained. At the close of the paper Professor Ever- 

 ett, M.A , F.R.S., &c, spoke in praise of the admirable manner 

 in which Mr. Praeger had brought the subject before the 

 meeting. Mr. Joseph Wright, F. G.S., gave some further 

 information regarding the Foraminifera which he had obtained 

 in the dredgings, and after several other members had spoken, 

 the audience gathered round the tables to examine the various 

 interesting objects there displayed. 



