34 [Proc. B.N.F.C., 



Montalto was entered, through the kindness of Captain Ker, 

 when it was regretted more time could not be spent in botanising 

 through the woods and around the lake covered with yellow 

 and white water lilies (Nuphar luteum and Nymphcea alba) and 

 abundance of Sweet Flag (Acorus Calamus). During the day 

 an entomologist of the party took the following : — The Red 

 Admiral Butterfly (Vanessa Alalanta) and the moths Charceas 

 jrrraminis, Crambus tristellus, Argyresthesia mendica, and 

 Dictyoieryx contaminana. 



idth August. 



GIANT'S CAUSEWAY. 



Beautiful weather favoured the Club in their excursion to the 

 Giant's Causeway, not a shower marring the effect of cloud and 

 sunshine during the day. About sixty members and friends 

 left York Road by the 8-15 train in a carriage reserved by the 

 courtesy of the manager, reaching Portrush in good time. The 

 special electric car was waiting to speed on its way to the 

 Causeway, and there was no desire to detain its progress, as it 

 was felt that the longest day was not long enough to see the 

 wonders of the Causeway and the headlands beyond. The golf 

 links passed, the White Rocks were reached and the eyes filled 

 with the stretch of sea and strand extending from the caverned 

 cliffs to Portrush. The quick rush through the air and the 

 steady vibrating hum of the cars told the electric current was 

 doing good work and maintaining a rapid and continuous 

 speed, leaving no question in the minds of the passengers as to 

 the surpassing advantages of electricity, properly managed, over 

 other means of locomotion. Considerable interest was excited 

 as the ruins of Dunluce Castle came in sight, surrounded by 

 the historical romance of past ages ; but the day was too young 

 and the sun too high for the imagination to revel in the scenes 

 witnessed around these historic walls in the earlier centuries. 

 It took the crimson sunset and the lowering clouds of falling 



