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riebeckite granophyre from Isle of Skye (J. St. J. Phillips), Lias 

 and Greensand fossils (George Maclean), banded and altered 

 shale from waterworks, Newcastle (Robert Young), fossils from 

 Cretaceous rocks of Kent, Rhaetic fossils from Bath, specimens 

 from lead mines, Foxdale, Isle of Man (Miss S. M. Thompson, 

 honorary secretary of the section). To the microscopic section, 

 which was in the highest degree interesting, the following 

 contributed : — Rev. John Andrew (president of section), Henry 

 Hanna, A. R. Hogg, W. S. M'Kee, Joseph Wright, Lorrain 

 Smith, Cecil Shaw. 



In the entomological department J. T. Tatlow showed a 

 collection of butterflies from the Austrian Tyrol. Among the 

 miscellaneous attractions, the great seals of England, exhibited 

 by John Vinycomb, formed a distinctive feature. 



At eight o'clock the president, Lavens M. Ewart, took the 

 chair. The president, who was received with applause, said — 

 In the first place I have to offer a welcome on behalf of the club 

 to our visitors, and hope they may have an enjoyable and 

 profitable evening, and I have especially to express our thanks 

 to those who have come to help us in the business of the 

 present meeting. Many of them have come from afar, and we 

 are grateful to all from far and near. I should like to say a few 

 words on a subject of much importance at the present time, 

 that of the Giant's Causeway, and it is surely a subject which 

 concerns the club. As most of those present must be aware, a 

 few speculators have banded themselves together to endeavour 

 to exclude the public from free access to this truly gigantic 

 creation in order to make money out of it for themselves, and 

 they have invoked the Court of Chancery to establish them in 

 this undertaking. Three gentlemen, of whom, unfortunately, 

 I am one, have been served with writs in respect of so-called 

 trespass, and the battle has begun. A committee had already 

 been formed to protect the rights of the public, and they are 

 defending the action. Owing to the fact that the Causeway 

 Syndicate is a public company they cannot be required to give 

 security for costs, and as their capital consists of, I am informed, 



