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placed at the disposal of the company at the close of the evening, 

 who eagerly availed themselves of the permission to select such 

 as they fancied, with the result that the table was soon com- 

 pletely cleared. The science of geology was represented by 

 some fine coloured photographs of Swiss glaciers, kindly lent 

 by Mr. Robert Brownlie ; interesting specimens of small basal- 

 tic columns from a quarry at Killead, shown by Mr. W. F. 

 M'Kinney ; and a good series of fossils from the local Carboni- 

 ferous beds, for which Miss S. M. Thompson gained a Club's 

 prize last year. On another table were an excellent series of 

 geodes from Iowa, U.S.A., which have been recently presented 

 to the Natural History and Philosophical Society by Mr. W. 

 E. Praeger ; these curious concretionary masses, which have 

 the form of hollow spheres of rock filled with a variety of beau- 

 tiful crystals, are found in the State of Iowa in a bed of impure 

 limestone which lies at the base of the Carboniferous formation. 

 A large suspended label, " Microscopical Section," showed 

 where a number of adepts were displaying the wonders of that 

 unseen world, teeming with animal and vegetable life in the 

 myriad different forms that pervade the air and water, and, 

 indeed, every object around us. The exhibitors were Messrs. 

 James Stelfox, W. S. M'Kee, W. D. Donnan, Joseph Wright, 

 F.G.S.; Wm.Hanna, B.A.; W. Gray, M.R.I. A.; E. M'Connell, 

 S. Cunningham, and H. M'Cleery. Among the subjects illus- 

 trated were pond life, living organisms, Foraminifera, phos- 

 phorescent animalculae, and potato-disease fungus. 



Other exhibits which were on view were flint implements from 

 various foreign countries, showing their likeness and unlikeness 

 to Irish forms, by Mr. S. F. Milligan, M.R.I.A. ; while fine 

 stereoscopes with glacier and other views were lent by Mr. 

 James Wilson, M.E., and Mr. James O'Neill, M.A. 



At nine o'clock silence was called, while the senior secretary 

 read the nominations of new members which had been handed 

 in ; they were as follow : — Miss E. Bruce, Mrs. Isaac Green, Mrs. 

 White-Spunner, Messrs. Samuel E. Acheson, S. D. Bell, 

 Hamilton Carse, Henry Cosgrove, George G. Crymble, Adam 



