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although if time had permitted some tempting marshy ground 

 at the southern end of the lake might have yielded some results. 



A discussion on the results of the day showed that some of 

 the finds had not been so interesting as had been expected. 

 The botanists had noted the marsh-violet (hottoma palustris) 

 in the drains at Holymount, the small knot-weed {polygonum 

 minus), and the least marsh- wort (apium inundatum) in the 

 marshes ; whilst in the woods the guelder rose (vibwnum 

 opulus) in berry formed a pretty sight. The coleopterists were 

 disappointed in the small number of forms noted, none of the 

 longicornia being met with. A fair number of land shells were 

 obtained in the marshes and in Ballydugan Lake. A prize had 

 been offered at the beginning of the day for the largest col- 

 lection of botanical specimens. The president (Rev. C. H. 

 Waddell, B.D.) acted as judge, and it was announced that Miss 

 Finlay was the winner with 87 specimens, the other competitors 

 being Mrs. Stephens, 56 specimens ; Miss Alice Tate, 53 speci- 

 mens ; and Miss Walker, 48 specimens. 



The minor party wound their way southward, and soon 

 leaving the main road, tollowed the less beaten tracks of the 

 country by-ways, pulling up at length by the quaint little 

 parish church of Bailee. There is nothing very ancient about 

 it, but its internal arrangements are of a type that is fast passing 

 away and now seldom if ever seen — old square pews, irreverently 

 called " loose-boxes," and the old-fashioned double-decker pulpit . 

 placed at the centre of the side wall. The graveyard possesses 

 but few stones of much interest, but in one corner is an old 

 tl resurrection " house now converted into a vault, since, happily? 

 it is no longer required, as the profession of u body-snatchers " 

 has become extinct. From this the party travelled on to 

 Bright — a townland situated on a most commanding height — 

 that gave a bird's-eye view from the old church of St. Nicholas 

 at Artole round the coast 10 Newcastle and the Mourne Moun- 

 tains, whose magnificent unclouded outlines and deep purple 

 colour formed a fitting background to one of nature's never- 

 tiring pictures. Here the rector of the parish (Rev. G. Beere) 



