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The second communication was by Mr. F. W. Lockwood, 

 being some notes on the "Seven Churches" of Glendalough, 

 County Wicklow. The paper was illustrated by a set of 

 beautiful sketches by Mr. J. P. Addey, a Dublin artist, iately 

 a resident in the valley. The writer observed that the title 

 " Seven " Churches was a misnomer, there being in reality 

 nine— viz : five in the central group beside the tower and 

 great cross, two lower down the valley, and two on the shore 

 of the upper lake. Attention was called to the stone-roofed 

 church with the small round tower built on the roof, known 

 as St. Kevin's kitchen ; and it was pointed out that Trinity 

 Church, as shown by a drawing of Beranger's made more than 

 one hundred years ago, had also a similar tower built on part 

 of the stone roof, which has now entirely disappeared except part 

 of the springing stones at the base. We have, therefore, 

 records of three or four such structures in Dublin and Wick- 

 low, of which the lower tower of St. Kevin's " kitchen " only 

 remains. St. Kieran's Church had its foundations cleared 

 away from a heap of rubbish by the Board of Works when 

 they took charge of these monuments. —The Rheefert Church, 

 surrounded by the rude crosses that mark the " tombs of the 

 kings " beside the upper lake, is most romantically situated, 

 and the Church of Teampull-na-Skellig, or Church of the Rock, 

 at the foot of lofty cliffs, accessible only by a boat, is even 

 more so. The monastery, which lies lower down the valley, 

 contains some of the richest and most elaborate Romanesque 

 work in Ireland. Glendalough is now very accessible by 

 excursion trains from Dublin, and the beauty and attractive- 

 ness of the place can hardly be exaggerated. 



The Chairman (Mr. Joseph Wright, F.G.S.) next brought 

 before the meeting some results of observations that he had 

 made into the growth of Forarninifera. He remarked as a 

 peculiarity, that he had been frequently struck with the re- 

 markable coincidence that where the primordial chamber was of 

 small size, the following chambers rapidly increase in size, and 

 in species whose primordial chamber was relatively larger, 



