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members were elected : — Miss Colvin, Messrs. J. M. Colton, John 

 M. Rankin, Thomas Clarke, jun., and Samuel Morton. Bidding 

 adieu to the Crebilly friends, the cars were mounted at seven 

 o'clock, and the last stage of the drive to Ballymena undertaken. 

 The party left Ballymena at 7-36 p.m., and after a fast run duly 

 reached Belfast at 8-35. 



Some of the rarer orchids known to occur in this neighbour- 

 hood were observed by the Botanists, such as Gymnadenia dlbida 

 and G. conopsea. Lastrea cemula was noted at Skerry. Ceterach 

 offlcinarum was growing profusely on a bridge, a hitherto 

 unrecorded locality. In the Crebilly demesne Lathrcea squamaria, 

 Anchusa sempervirens, and Epipactis latifolia were obtained. A 

 specimen of Helix hortensis was picked up on Slemish, which is a 

 new County record for Antrim. 



A Special Prize, offered by the President for the first to reach 

 the top of Slemish, was won by Miss Pim. The prize was a 

 beautiful bronze paperweight in the shape of a frog, cast from 

 nature, and mounted on Carrara marble. 



CORK. 

 (IRISH FIELD CLUB UNION CONFERENCE.) 



The Field Club Union of Ireland, consisting of the Belfast, 

 Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Omagh Clubs, held their fifth 

 Triennial Conference at Cork, from July nth to 17th, under the 

 Presidency of Mr. Robert Patterson, F.L.S. An elaborate and 

 carefully thought-out programme was sent out beforehand by the 

 energetic Secretary of the I.F.C.U., Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, 

 M.R.I.A., Dublin, to whom too much praise cannot be given for 

 his admirable arrangements for the comfort of the party and the 

 complete success of the conference. 



Thursday morning, the nth July, saw the Belfast contingent 

 comfortably seated in the reserved carriages of the 7-30 a.m. train. 



