PROCEEDINGS, 



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SUMMER SESSION. 



ARMAGH. 



The first excursion of the Summer Session was held on 

 Saturday, May 23rd, Armagh being the place chosen. A party 

 of twenty-five left the Great Northern Railway by the ten o'clock 

 train, reaching Armagh at n-30, where a wagonette was in 

 attendance, and a start was made through the city for the Palace, 

 the residence of the Primate, where the fine old Abbey in the 

 grounds was inspected and photographed by several lady and 

 gentlemen amateurs. These ruins are part of the ancient Cill- 

 na-Fearta, and were formerly very extensive. At present some 

 fine arches and a door still remain, while scattered around 

 are old mossy tombstones, not, however, of a very ancient 

 date. The beauty and picturesqueness of the ruins were much 

 admired. The party then inspected the gardens, and drove 

 through the demesne to Corr's quarries, where the geologists, 

 who were in great force, held high revelry for over an hour. 

 This quarry, as well as the Navan quarry, which was afterwards 

 visited, affords a wealth of fish remains. The Carboniferous 

 Limestone here rests on the Lower Silurian strata, and is divided 

 into upper and lower limestone, with an intervening " calp," 

 then sandstone. It is in the lower beds of limestone that the 

 fish remains are found, and consist of about 1 50 species, divided 

 amongst six groups — viz., Uybodus, Orodus, Petalodus, Coch- 

 h'odus, Psammodus, and Copodus. Several members obtained 

 fine specimens of these fossil teeth and spines, also some beautiful 

 shells. Some photographs of sections were also taken for the 

 Club's album. These remains are sufficient to warrant the 

 palaeontologist in assuming that the huge sharks of warmer 

 climes do not rival in size the departed monsters of the Armagh 



