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The following is a list of some of the more important 

 exhibits : — Series of fossils from chalk, greensand, and lias of 

 Ireland and parts of England, by R. Bell ; plant remains from 

 Ballypallady, &c, and from Museum varieties of silica, by H. 

 J. Seymour ; living cycads and igneous rocks, by A. G. Wilson; 

 fossils from carboniferous, lias, &c, by William Gray ; erratics 

 from Club collection ; mycellium of fungus in wood and Rubus 

 drigeri var Hibernicus, by the Rev. C. H. Waddell ; fossil wood 

 from West Indies and Lough Neagh. There were a number of 

 other exhibits. 



Two new members were elected, and the meeting concluded. 



16 March. 



The President in the chair. The following paper was first 

 read : — " The re-discovery of Dry as Octopetala in the County 

 Antrim," by the Rev. H. W. Lett, m.a., m.r.i.a. The plant 

 Dryas Octopetala or Mountain Avens, is mentioned in Mackay's 

 Flora Hibernica in 1836, as having been found in the County 

 Antrim by Templeton. The specimen does not exist, and 

 there is no note in Templeton's MSS. about this plant from 

 County Antrim, consequently the editors of the Flora of the 

 North East of Ireland, in 1888, excluded it with the remark — 

 1 Mr. Templeton is erroneously credited with finding this plant 

 in County Antrim.' 



Now, while collecting mosses on the 19th of March, 1884, at 

 the Sallagh Braes in County Antrim, I found Dryas growing 

 and took this specimen which I labelled, and put aside, and as 

 I was working at cryptogams, I forgot it till July, 1896, when 

 it turned up in my Herbarium. 



A note of mine embodying these facts appeared in the 

 Journal of Botany for August of last year. To me it was very 

 interesting to have verified Templeton's accuracy by the 

 rediscovery. 



The editors of the Irish Naturalist took exception to my 



