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or another, for the most part from difficulty of access the 

 following portions would still repay careful work : — 



The Glens of Antrim — small portions here have been well 

 worked, but not the whole. Lough Neagh — Its shores and 

 islands, and also its waters for the fauna. The " County Down 

 Lake District," which lies N.W. of Ballynahinch, containing 

 seven loughs — Aghery, Erne, Henney, Derry, Ballykine, 

 and Bow Lough. A systematic survey of these, especially the 

 fauna and water plants, with a boat for dredging, might afford 

 good results ; and as regards marine fauna and flora, the same 

 remark will apply to Strangford, Carlingford, and Lough 

 Foyle. It would be easy to add to the list to show that there 

 is still work to be done before we can say that the district has 

 been worked out. 



It is true that Club excursions have not been found to be 

 the best opportunities for work, but they are invaluable as 

 preliminary surveys of special districts when the best places 

 can be seen and marked down for future detailed work. 



It adds greatly to the value of an excursion if some definite 

 object or objects can be placed on the programme to be carried 

 out, as has been done on some occasions. Search for some 

 special plant or shell or fossil which it is important to find 

 again. In this way there are some old records we ought to set 

 about investigating afresh. Carex Baxbanmii ought to be 

 searched for in other suitable parts of the extensive shores of 

 Lough Neagh, as it seems to be extinct on Harbour Island. 

 Special search might be made in fresh places among the 

 Silurian rocks of County Down for graptolites, by which the 

 age of the beds are known. 



Botanists have done more than either zoologists or geologists 

 in publishing complete lists for separate localities. Why should 

 there not be complete lists worked out and published in our 

 Proceedings say of the birds in Tollymore Park, the shells of 

 Colin Glen, or as regards the rocks, papers complete in them- 

 selves on particular rocks or beds with the fossils found in them. 



I shall now endeavour to give a brief account of how far our 



