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as far inland as Randalstown, but they are principally to be 

 found around the coast where fish-oil could be procured. Whale 

 or seal oil was used when it could be got, but crude cod-liver oil 

 was in common use around our coast, with the pith of the rush 

 as a wick. Mr. R. Welch shows here a neat little specimen of 

 a cruisie from the lower Alps, presented to him by our late 

 President, Mr. L. M. Ewart; it has only a single dish with 

 little spout inserted to raise the wick. All the Ulster speci- 

 mens have a second dish (underneath dish containing the oil 

 and wick) to catch the drip. Cruisies were made locally at 

 Carnmoney. Mr. M'Kinney knew of an old man called 

 Robert Gilbert, of Carnmoney, who made cruisies of sheet 

 iron; he had a mould cut into a block of basalt, and an iron 

 ^ie with which he hammered the sheet iron into mould while 

 in a hot state. He charged Is. each for the cruisies. Two of 

 his specimens are here shown. In a very exhaustive paper on 

 light and fire making, by Mr. Henry C. Mercer (delivered in 

 Pennsylvania), he describes an oyster shell- used as a lamp by 

 negroes. Similar lamps have been used around our coast, and 

 Mr. Alexander Wilson brought a scallop shell from Arran- 

 more Island, which he saw in use. I shall now describe some 

 of the specimens, as I have here about forty of the long type, 

 not two of which are alike. Many of the most ornamental 

 specimens are from Lisburn and Armagh districts, while some 

 most ingenious specimens are from County Antrim. I shall 

 be pleased if I have raised sufficient interest in this subject as 

 may lead to the preservation of other specimens which must 

 still be in the country. 



Mr. Wilson moved, and Mr. Swanston seconded, that the 

 paper be published in extenso in the Proceedings of the Club. 



The next paper was on 



" THE FORAMINIFERA OF THE BOULDER CLAY OF 

 KNOCK GLEN, CO. DOWN." BY JOSEPH 

 WRIGHT, F.G.S. 



Knock Glen is situated about one mile west of the Knock 

 Station. Here is a deep bed of Boulder Clay which is com- 



