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'' FORAMINIFERAL BOULDER CLAY FROM WOOD- 

 BURN, CARRICKFERGUS. " 



The Club held the fifth meeting of the Winter Session 

 on Tuesday evening, 17th March, in the Museum, College 

 Square North. Mr. F. J. Bigger, M.R.I.A., occupeld the chair. 

 Part of the evening was devoted to the exhibition of lantern 

 slides dealing with Natural History and Archaeology. Mr. 

 W. A. Green exhibited views of slide-cars in the north of 

 Antrim, and some of rock scenery on the Antrim Coast. His 

 short description explained the salient points of interest of 

 his brilliant slides. Messrs. Hamilton M'Cleery and George 

 M'Lean then showed a number of slides of a dredging expedi- 

 tion in Belfast Lough. Mr. M'Cleery's micro-slides of the 

 objects dredged shewed some excellent work and proved that 

 gentleman's ability as an adept in the combined use of the 

 microscope and camera. A series of original views of cave 

 dwellings in the north of Spain were of interest. Mr. Robert 

 Welch exhibited a number of slides showing the perforation 

 of rocks by Helix nemoralis and elucidated a difficult and 

 much disputed point as to the origin of certain rock markings 

 which he had observed near Whitehead. Views of the 

 recent floods at Limavady Junction and the destruction of 

 cliffs at Blackpool gave evidence of the severity of last month's 

 storm. 



Mr. Joseph Wright, F.G.S., contributed a note on " Fora- 

 miniferal Boulder Clay from Woodburn, Carrickfergus." He 

 said — ^The Boulder Clay at Woodburn is very fine and fairly 

 free from stones ; it is cut through by the Woodburn river at a 

 little more than a mile N.W. of Carrickfergus, and at an ele- 

 vation of about 300 feet above the sea. A few years ago a 

 deep bed of the clay extended for a considerable distance by 

 the side of the stream, but the greater part of it is now 

 covered by the soil; a small portion of it is still accessible at 

 a little above the bridge that here crosses the stream. The 

 locality has long been notable on account of the frequent 

 occurrence in the clay of Leda ijyymcea and Leda 7mnuta with 



