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the exhibitor in each subject giving a brief but interesting ex- 

 planation of each shde, the lantern being manipulated by Mr. 

 A. R. Hogg, ths well-lcnown lanternist : — Architecture, views in 

 Donegal, &c., by W. J. Fennell, M.R.I. A. ; nests, eggs, and 

 feathers, by N. H. Foster, M.B.O.U. ; protective coloration in 

 eggs and birds, young cuckoo in nest, &c., by Robert Patterson, 

 M.R.I. A. ; views of the Matterhorn, Alpine villages, by Mr. 

 Anderson ; views of Lough Derg, by Miss Walkington ; a 

 beautiful series illustrative of plant fertilisation and pollination 

 (kindly lent by Professor Gregg Wilson), with a deeply inteiest- 

 ing description of the slides, by Arthur Deane, curator Municipal 

 Museum; cromleacs, souterrains, &c.. by Mrs. Hobson ; views 

 on excursions, Giant's Causeway, &c., by Miss Courvoissier, this 

 charming young lady being a keen botanist as well as a photo- 

 grapher ; boulder-clay sections, by Miss Andrews ; a fine set of 

 slides of sea-stacks, coast denudation, granite weathering, &c., 

 and described in an able and interesting manner, by W. J. C. 

 Tomlinson ; views of the Bann and the "Kieselghur" brickmak- 

 ing industry, foraminifera, &c., by Robert Welch, M.R.I.A. ; 

 Giant's Causeway views, &c., by W. A. Green ; a series of 

 beautiful slides on the Echinodermata (kindly lent by Professor 

 Gregg Wilson), and explained by W. H. Gallway ; views of 

 Sligo Abbey, Old Belfast houses and buildings, &c., by A. R. 

 Hogg. 



" LEAVES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS. 



The usual Wednesday evening meeting was held in the 

 Clubroom on the 12th December, for the purpose of hearing 

 a short lecture by Mr. Arthur Deane, Curator of the Municipal 

 Art Gallery and Museum, on " Leaves and their Functions." 

 There was a representative attendance of members — the 

 President (Mr. W. H. Phillips) occupying the chair. Mr. 

 Deane, in introducing his subject, referred to the special 

 characteristics of a true leaf, and by way of contrast instanced 

 the butcher's broom plant as an illustration of leaf-like branches, 

 the leaf-like branches of this plant having all the appearance to 



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