344 [ Pr< >c. B.N.F.C, 



their respective lines of marine botany and zoology. Prof. 

 Johnson's notes on the Algae collected and Dr. Hurst's list of 

 the animals observed were published in the October number of 

 the Irish Naturalist. 



10, II, and 12 July. 

 FIELD CLUB UNION CONFERENCE. 



CAVAN AND LOUGH OUGHTER. 



The Club's Annual long excursion took place to Cavan and 

 Lough Oughter. The Belfast party, numbering about twenty, 

 left by the Great Northern Railway at 8.10, arriving at Cavan 

 about midday, proceeding at once to the Farnham Arms. 

 Shortly after the arrival of the Northern naturalists the Dublin 

 party came in, both clubs having arranged their long excursion 

 to the same place under the Irish Field Club Union. Early 

 dinner over, brakes were taken to Lord Farnham's deer-stocked 

 demesne, where a pleasant little treat was ready in the shape 

 of a visit to the private museum of the castle. This collection 

 contains a most remarkable series of amber, a fine series of 

 quartzes and silica in its various forms, and an exceedingly 

 handsome and valuable set of polished pebbles, agates, jaspers, 

 and many other semi-precious stones. Many were the 

 exclamations of admiration as stones, each more handsome 

 than the last, were noticed. The fossil collection was also 

 large, but could not be so well seen, and Lord Farnham's fine 

 collection of fossil fishes is now public property. 



Leaving this room after a time all too short to admit of a 

 proper appreciation, the brakes were again mounted, stopping 

 at Derrygid Wood, after a long drive through a well-timbered 

 estate. Here the party dismounted, and at once proceeded to 

 work. Within a few minutes several members had found a 

 large and handsome species of a rare land snail (Clausilia 

 laminata), an addition to the local list though recorded from 

 the county previously, but not from any other Irish locality. 



