annual Report and Proceedings. 



SERIES II. 

 VOLUME VI. 



PART III. 

 1909-10. 



CONTENTS. page 



List of Officers ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 233 



Annual Reports ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 235 



Statement of Accounts ... ... .. .. ... ... ... 247 



Excursions— Lyle Hill, Boyne Valley, Derryadd Bay, Scawt Hill, Roe Valley, Bundoran, 

 Inch Abbev, Richhill, Ballymena, Orlock Point, Cloughfin, Woodburn Glen, 



Moira, Squire's Hill ... ... ... ... ... . . ... 248 



Conversazione ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 279 



Papers— The Birds of Hillsborough— Presidential Address— N. H. Foster, M.B.O.U. ... 283 



The Ecology of Plants— Rev. C. H. Waddell, B.D. 289 



Petrological Types of Basalt in Co. Antrim— J. Strachan ... 290 

 The Toxic Effects of Fresh Water on Marine Animals, and of Sea Water on 



Fresh-water Species-W. J. Dakin, M.Sc. ... . ... ... ... 292 



Foraminifera— Joseph Wright, F.G.S. ... ... ... ... 293 



Some Connemara Plants— W. J. C. Tomlinson ... .. ... ... 294 



Some Origins of the Irish People— Major Berry, M.R.I.A. ... ... 296 



The Study of Native Vegetation— R. LI. Praeger, M.R.I.A. . ... . 297 



Dendrites and Picture-Stones— J. Strachan ... ... ... ... 297 



An Evening with the Diatomaceae— J. Maxwell, J. P. .-.. ... 300 



With the British Association in Canada in 1903— A. R. Dwerryhouse, D.Sc. ... 302 



The Ferns of Ulster ; How to grow, and where to find them — W. H. Phillips 305 



The Geology of Weymouth and the Coast of Dorsetshire - W. J. C. Tomlinson 305 



Variation due to Environment — R. Welch, M.R.I.A. .... ... ... 309 



Report of Delegate to Corresponding Societies' Conference of British 



Association — F. Balfour Browne, M.A. ... . .. 310 



Archaeological Evidence of the Truths of Irish Records— Miss M. E. Dobbs ... 312 



Plant Life in a Bog— Rev. C. H. Waddell, B.D. ... 315 



The Chalcedony of Ballyboland— J. Strachan ... ... 316 



Short Notes on the Plants of Cave Hill and Neighbourhood— N. Carrothers ... 318 

 The Crossing of Ferns— Reminiscences of some Pioneers of the Cult— W. H. 



Phillips - ... 319 



Annual Meeting ... .. ... ... ^«<#\ ••• — — ••• 321 



Rules ... ... ... /rtj. A C*4r£s» t *\ ••• - ••• — 323 



Exchanges ... ... T& . ... -• •• 326 



List of Members .. ... ... ... ... - ... ... ... ... 330 



List of Officers (1910-11) ' 337 



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