1911-12, 503 



The faunal notes relating to this excursion will be found 

 among the Proceedings of the "Winter Session, being detailed at a 

 meeting of the Zoological Section. 



ELLIS'S CUT, LOUGH NEAGH. 



The fifth Summer excursion took place on Saturday, 29th 

 July, when twenty-seven members started from Belfast by the 1-50 

 train, and in little over half an hour arrived in Lurgan. Here 

 brakes were in readiness to convey the party to the shores of 

 Lough Neagh. The drive terminated at Shan Port, and the 

 members then walked along the shore to Ellis's Cut, this section 

 of the lake margin, about a mile in length, including all that 

 portion of County Down which impinges on Lough Neagh. The 

 canal was crossed at the Ellis's Cut lock, and a walk of five 

 minutes sufficed to bring the members to Leansmount, where 

 the brakes were waiting, and prompt to time — 5-45 — the return 

 journey to Lurgan was commenced. Tea was served in the 

 Brownlow Arms Hotel, and afterwards the President, Mr. R. J. 

 Welch, gave a resume of the work hitherto accomplished 

 in the Natural History Survey of Clare Island. The 7-30 train 

 conveyed the party from Lurgan, and from its windows the 

 members had an opportunity of witnessing an unusually 

 magnificent display of lightning, the flashes, which followed 

 closely one after another, appearing to rise from the ground 

 and to disappear in the dense black cloud above. By the time 

 Lisburn was reached the storm had for the time exhausted itself, 

 and Belfast was reached shortly after eight o'clock. The country 

 between Lurgan and Lough Neagh is covered with drumlins, and 

 on the shores of the lake the Geologists found numerous erratics 

 of Scotch granite. The Botanical Section was well represented 

 and the following list includes some of the best finds of the 

 afternoon : — Ranunculus Lingua, Lathyrus palustris, (Enanthc 

 fistulosa, Sagittaria sagittifolia, Thalictrum flavum, Typha angi/s- 

 tifolia, Lysimachia vulgaris, and Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, the 



