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perfect without one. A fragment of the old shaft, worked with a 

 panel of our national ornament, is still preserved in Lord 

 Dufferin's chapel at Clandeboye. And the hope is entertained 

 that other portions may yet be found sufficient to justify its 

 restoration. The bell of Bangor is now in the possession of 

 Colonel M'Cance, of Knocknagoney, County Down, whose great- 

 grandfather found it in the ruins of the Abbey. Patrick's bell is 

 a rude piece of iron work 6in. square by 5m. broad and 4m. deep, 

 made of thin sheets of hammered iron bent into a four-sided form 

 fastened with rivets, and brazed or bronzed. The present old 

 Parish Church contains the only relic of the Anglo-Norman work 

 in Bangor — a mutilated portion of a cuniform stone or burial slab, 

 and from the shears or scissors carved on it as the emblem of 

 womanhood we know that it was intended to mark the resting- 

 place of a lady of high rank. In passing we might mention that 

 the old building near the pier at Bangor was once the Custom 

 House, but it does not appear to have been a castle, as one might 

 suppose at first glance. It may also be of interest to note that it 

 is said that at Rath Gael, in Bangor, the first Sunday School in 

 Ireland was formed. With these hastily-thrown-together notes we 

 conclude, trusting that the future of Bangor in Down may be as 

 resplendent as its past. 



At the conclusion of the paper an animated discussion took 

 place — Mrs. Hobson, and Messrs. Milligan, May, and Cunningham 

 taking part. 



NOTES ON THE ZOOLOGICAL WORK OF THE PAST SESSION. 



A meeting of the Zoological Section was held in the Museum, 

 College Square North, on 7th December, the Chairman of the 

 Section (Mr. Nevin H. Foster, M.B.O.U.) presiding. The evening 

 was devoted to short notes by various members on the work of 

 the past year. 



The Chairman, in his opening remarks, stated that the 

 number of active Club members in the various branches of 



