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spicaium, Apium imindatum, Hydrocharis Morsus-rante, Potamogeton 

 lucens, and Osmunda regalis. 



After a pleasant afternoon spent in these varied pursuits the 

 party left the bay at 5-45 for the return drive to Lurgan, where 

 tea was provided by Mrs. Owens, Shankill Buildings. After tea a 

 short business meeting was held — the President, Mr. N. H. 

 Foster, M.B.O.U., in the chair— when Miss Jeanie Larmor, Mrs. 

 L. E. Johnston, and Mr. J. Carroll Culbert were elected members. 

 The party spent the remainder of the evening in viewing the sights 

 of Lurgan, before returning by the 8-20 train to Belfast. 



SCAWT HILL. 



The second excursion of the Geological Section took place 

 on Saturday, 19th June, to Scawt Hill, an interesting volcanic 

 neck. The members started by the 12-50 train for Larne, and a 

 beautiful drive of six miles brought them to the foot of the hill. 

 On the way the large dolerite erratic known as the " Wren's Egg," 

 near Cairncastle Lodge, was noted, and further on the striking 

 columns of dolerite at Ballygalley Head, popularly called the 

 "'Corn Stacks," recalled the bold columnar structure of Fair Head. 

 At Ballygalley Castle a turn inland was made, and a further short 

 drive brought the party to Scawt Hill, where, according to the 

 Survey Memoir to Sheet 20, the chalk has been carried up with 

 the basaltic mass forming the volcanic neck. The metamorphism 

 of the chalk is very striking, and in examining it a few years ago 

 one of the members of the section came unexpectedly on a basic 

 dyke traversing the " neck " dolerite and cutting across a narrow 

 band of chalk so weathered near the junction as to be almost 

 indistinguishable from the dyke. Specimens were collected from 

 different points, microscopic sections prepared, and Mr. G. C. 

 Gough, to whom they were shown, examined them carefully, and 

 described them in a paper communicated to the Geological 

 Magazine, in April, 1907, entitled " A Case of Metamorphism of 



