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Carrickfergus. Mr. Foster has produced a paper on the " Weight 

 of Birds' Eggs," and also a paper on the " Distribution of 

 Woodlice in Ireland," published in the Irish Naturalist. Messrs. 

 A. W. Stelfox and R. Welch have published several notes upon 

 Irish Mollusca in the same Journal, and the Secretary of the 

 Section has published papers on the " Life History of the 

 Agrionid Dragonfly," and on the " Life History of Hydrobius 

 fuscipes L., a common Water-Beetle." 



Apart from published matter the Zoological Members of the 

 Club have been steadily pursuing their respective lines, and 

 several have further papers in contemplation. 



(Signed) 



Frank Balfour Browne, Hon. Sec. of the Section. 



Report of the Archaeological Section. 



It is with regret that we have to report that no meetings of 

 the Section were held owing to the difficulty in obtaining papers 

 on Archaeological subjects, only two being offered, viz., those 

 by Major Berry and by Miss Dobbs, which were considered 

 of sufficient importance to put before the Club at its general 

 Meetings. It is to be hoped the coming year will give better 



results. 



(Signed) 



W. J. Fennell, Hon. Sec. of the Section. 



Report of Subcommittee on Prize Competitions. 



For Prize No. 12 Mr. James Strachan submits a series of 

 Microscopic Slides. Twelve of these illustrate dendritic growths, 

 chiefly of copper oxide, which are purely inorganic in origin and 

 crystalline in structure. The remaining 12 are illustrative of the 

 life-history of an iron bacterium, Cladothrix, found by the 

 competitor to exist commonly in the basaltic plateau of Co. 



