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semidecandrum, Saxifraga tridactylites, Antennaria dioica, Myosotis 

 collina, Scilla verna, Asplenium marinum, Draba muralis, Arenaria 

 trinervia, and Arabis hirsuta. The deep-wooded ravines at 

 Downhill were found excellent collecting grounds for Land 

 Mollusca. That member of the fauna, Helix hortensis, so local in 

 the North of Ireland, was found to be plentiful under ivy along the 

 top of an old wall. Pupa anglica occurred at the base of the cliffs, 

 and Helicella intersecta on the sandhills near Magilligan. Some of 

 the conchologists who were collecting on the strand at Downhill 

 cliffs were delighted to find a tidal fringe of a rare pelagic Atlantic 

 shell, Spiralis retroversus, which occasionally comes ashore in 

 immense numbers on the West Coast. On the Magilligan strand 

 numbers of Cyprina islandica, Lutraria eiliptica, Area letragona, 

 Venus fasciata, Solon siliqua, Donax vittatus, Capulus hungaricus, 

 Cyprcea europcea, Nassa pygmcea, Turritella communis, and Scalaria 

 communis were found. 



The ornithologists handed in a list of forty-three species noted 

 during the day, chiefly in the demesne, showing that birds are not 

 molested there. It was noticed that the Siskin has increased there 

 as a nesting species. At five o'clock the various groups of workers 

 met by arrangement at the Golf Hotel, Castlerock, where they were 

 entertained to tea by Miss Kidd, a prominent member of the Club. 

 A short business meeting was held in the hotel grounds after tea, 

 the President (Mr. R. J. Welch, M.R.I. A.) in the chair. A vote of 

 thanks to Miss Kidd for so hospitably entertaining the party, 

 proposed by Mr. J. R. Macoun, and seconded by Mr. F. A. Heron, 

 was passed by hearty acclamation. The Rev. W. S. Smith proposed, 

 and Mr. J. Skillen seconded, a cordial vote of thanks to Mr. William 

 Jackson, who had placed his services as guide through the Downhill 

 demesne at the disposal of the Club during the entire day. Miss 

 Kidd and Mr. Jackson suitably replied. Three new members — 

 Miss M. Stewart, Miss L. Lowry, and Mr. Frank Johnston, J. P. — 

 were elected. Shortly afterwards the party took train at 6-57, 

 arriving in Belfast shortly after nine. 





