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logy was not forgotten in the boulder clays at Ballyholme, and 

 at altitudes of 1,000 to 1,400 feet on Divis and the Black 

 Mountain, at glens near Larne, and in the great deposits ex- 

 tending so widely about the Carey River, near Ballycastle. It 

 is an interesting and important fact that these boulder clays 

 from such high levels should both contain foraminifera. . 



The much-debated point of the geological age of the rhyolites 

 of Tardee and Sandy Brae caused sundry expeditions to be 

 made to those somewhat inaccessible localities as well as to 

 Templepatrick, to which special attention has been recently 

 directed by A. M 'Henry's paper in the " Geological Magazine," 

 in which he shows good reason to conclude that the rhyolite 

 had intruded between the upper and lower basalt periods. 

 Professor Cole has been working amongst these lavas for a con- 

 siderable time, and an instalment of the results has already 

 been given. A careful and exhaustive analysis of the rhyolite 

 worked out by A. Percy Hoskins, F.I.C., F.C.S., was also read 

 (see page 310). 



Palaeontology was not neglected, the members having visited 

 the ordovician strata of Donaghadee in search for graptolities ; 

 Woodburn and the Gobbins for cretaceous fossils ; and Barney's 

 point, at Islandmagee, for lower lias. The fossils and rocks 

 collected on these excursions were shown, together with micros- 

 copic rock sections, photographs, pamphlets, and maps illus- 

 trative of the excursions. An allusion to the week spent in our 

 district by the London Geologists' Association during the sum- 

 mer recalled this very successful joint day's excursion with the 

 club to the Mourne Mountains. Some allusion to the club 

 excursions, which were of geological interest, was followed by 

 the description of an excursion to the very remarkable series of 

 intrusive dykes on the coast of County Down, ending with a 

 hasty visit to the quarries of splendid hornblende-granite near 

 Castlewellan. 



Lantern slides from photographs taken by Miss M. K. Andrews, 

 and by W. J. Fennell, W. Gray, R. Welch, and J. St. J. Phillips 

 illustrated the remarks. 



