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slate, about 30 yards in internal diameter, the enclosing wall 

 is in some parts 18 feet high. 



Queenstown and Cork were then visited, and Cloyne with 

 its fine round tower, returning by the beautifully wooded 

 demesne of Longfields with its great Cromleach. At Lismore 

 the party had the opportunity of seeing the Crozier and Book 

 of Lismore. 



The Lecture was illustrated by numerous original limelight 

 views. 



18 January. 

 On this evening three papers were read. 



1. H. Hanna, m.a., b.sc. — " Notes on tbe Fauna of 



the Antrim Coast." 



2. Miss Andrews. — " Fairies and their Dwelling 



Places." 



3. R. Welch — " Land Shell Pockets : Ancient and 



Modern." 



Mr. IIanna described the results of a visit to Ballycastle, made 

 for the purpose of studying Turbellarian worms and other low 

 forms of marine invertebrates. 



Special attention was drawn to the Rhabdo coela, especially 

 Convoluta paradoxa. This animal lives not like other animals, 

 but like a green plant in pools exposed to the air and sun's rays, 

 which are necessary to enable the green chlorophyl of the algae 

 now living in the animals, to form the carbo-hydrates upon 

 which this form now lives exclusively. A remarkable thing 

 about this form is that if we separate the alga from the animal 

 the former is not able to live independently ot the latter, This 

 shows how close in some cases the animal kingdom is to the 

 vegetable, and how materially dependent the one is on the 

 other. 



Fecampia erythrocephala was recorded for the first time in 

 this country, and an outline of its life history was given. 



