53** [Proc. B.N.F.C, 



on the Botany of the Mourne Mountains " (Proc. Royal Irish 

 Academy, 3rd Series, Vol. II., No. 2, 1892), by Messrs. Stewart 

 and Praeger, the additions to the flora there recorded being 

 Drosera intermedia, Rubus ammobius, R. nitidus, Rosa involuta 

 (type), Saussurea alpina, Hieracium argenteum, and H. 

 auratum. 



At the close of the proceedings the following new members 

 were elected : — Mrs. Leslie, Mr. J. Campbell Carson, and Mr. 

 William Bryson. 



The third meeting was held on January 17th, the President 

 in the chair, when Professor A. C. Haddon, M.A , M.R.I. A., 

 delivered a lecture on " The Aran Islands ; a study in Irish 

 Ethnography." There was a very large attendance of members 

 and visitors. The President briefly introduced the lecturer, 

 remarking that Professor Haddon needed little introduction to 

 any audience assembled in that hall. 



Professor Haddon said that there is even in Ireland con- 

 siderable ignorance respecting its western isles. People have 

 a hazy notion that they are extremely interesting, and that 

 their scenery is fine ; but few have any definite knowledge 

 about them. He had been invited by the Belfast Naturalists' 

 Field Club to give an account, so far as he was able, by word 

 and picture, of the Aran Islands, Co. Galway. He gladly 

 embraced the opportunity thus afforded of suggesting to that 

 energetic Club a new kind of field work. Of late years the 

 study of Irish Natural History has received a fresh impetus, but 

 the natural history of the Irish man is as yet unworked, and 

 owing to various causes it is increasingly becoming more difficult 

 to study, hence the necessity for prompt action in the matter. 

 He proposed, then, illustrating the methods of this new study 

 by limiting his remarks to a description of a very circumscribed 

 area. This would necessitate the grouping of his facts into a 

 more academic form than is customary in popular lectures. 



