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Saturday morning gave promise of an ideal day, and 

 all expectations were realised. Starting from the hotels at 

 nine o'clock, the members were driven to Carrowmore, where 

 Mr. W. F. de V. Kane gave a short account of the amazing 

 wealth of stone monuments to be observed in the immediate 

 vicinity. The next stopping-place was close at hand, where 

 the ruins of an ancient church and stone circle were in- 

 spected, after which the brakes were remounted and the drive 

 continued to Glen Lodge, on the shore of Ballysodare Bay. Here 

 the members were met by a local gentleman, who conducted 

 them to Knocknarea Glen, a remarkable straight cliff-walled 

 fissure, wooded and hung with ferns, mainly of the hart's- 

 tongue species, in wonderful luxuriance. After lunch on the 

 shore the party divided, the majority ascending Knocknarea 

 (1,078 feet), while others walked round the hill examining 

 the sand-dunes, which contain evidences of inhabitation by 

 prehistoric man, and all meeting at the' village of Strandhill, 

 from whence at six o'clock the brakes conveyed the members 

 back to Sligo. After dinner an exhibition and demonstra- 

 tion of the various scientific results of the excursion was given 

 in the Town Hall, and was largely attended not only by the 

 members, but by the Mayor of Sligo and many of the local 

 inhabitants, and proved a great success. A prize for the 

 best find of the week had been offered by Mr. Fennell, and 

 this was awarded to Dr. D'Evelyn, of the Belfast Club, for 

 a flint arrow-head found in one of the kitchen-middens. On 

 the motion of Mr. W. J. Fennell, seconded by Mr. W. F. de 

 V. Kane, and supported by Mrs. Henry Thompson and Mr. 

 John Jaffe, cordial votes of thanks were passed to the ladies 

 and gentlemen who had given permission to enter their 

 grounds, and who had in several ways rendered assistance, 

 and to Mr. Praeger, to whose exertions the success of the 

 meeting was entirely due. 



Sunday is a dies non with the Field Clubs, and the 

 members were on this day free to make their own arrange- 

 ments. Many visited the ruins of Sligo Abbey and the far- 

 famed holy well on the margin of Lough Gill, while others 

 indulged in more extensive excursions. 



