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read, adding greatly to the information and pleasure of the party. 

 Strangford was reached about 4-30, where the members of the Club 

 were entertained to tea by the Rev. Charles K. and Mrs. Pooler, 

 of Downpatrick. At the conclusion of the meal a short business 

 meeting was held, Dr. Dwerryhouse occupying the chair in the 

 unavoidable absence of the President, and in a few well-chosen 

 words he expressed the thanks of the Club to Dr. and Mrs. Pooler 

 on this the second occasion of their kindness to the members. He 

 was ably seconded by the Rev. Dr. Hamilton. The election of 

 six new members — Miss M. A. Blackwood, Miss M. L. Foster, 

 Miss A. B. Foster, Master Nevin H. D. Foster, Master George 

 B. Brown, and Master Max Brown, concluded the proceedings. 



Among the Plants noted on the excursion may be mentioned 

 Orobanche rubra, Calystegia Soldanella, Cynoglossum officinale, and 

 the Eryngium maritimum. The four common species of Wood- 

 lice and Armadillidium vulgare were abundant at Killard, while 

 Tricho?iiscus roseus and Cylisticus convexus occurred in the green- 

 house at Oldcourt. The Land-shells Pupa ///uscorum and Helicdla 

 barbara were taken at Killard Point. 



BARON'S COURT. 

 The third excursion of the Summer Session took place on 

 Saturday, 1st July, to Baron's Court, County Tyrone, the residence 

 of his Grace the Duke of Abercorn, K.G. After a brief interval 

 at Newtownstewart the party set off on cars for their destination, 

 charmingly situated in a narrow valley about two miles south- 

 west of Newtownstewart. It extends in a south-westerly 

 direction for fully three miles and at the extreme end is the 

 parish church. Within the demesne the lowest ground in the line 

 of the valley bottom is occupied by a chain of three long narrow 

 lakelets. The modern castle, dating from the latter part of the 

 eighteenth century, stands on a terrace on the eastern side of the 

 middle lake, known as Lough Fanny. 



