exhibited the Parasite of sleeping sickness, and the small Jelly-fish 

 that form part of the Plankton of the English Channel. Professor 

 Gregg Wilson showed a case illustrating variety in Guillemots' eggs. 

 In the Botanical Section quite one of the features of the 

 exhibition was a very fine series of water-colour drawings by Dr. 

 H. Drinkwater (Wrexham), of British Plants. In interesting 

 contrast to this last-mentioned exhibit were the carefully-executed 

 water-colour drawings of British Plants and other Natural History 

 objects by Mr. A. G. Stubbs (Herts), who used transparent 

 colours, in contrast with the opaque medium employed by Dr. 

 Drinkwater. Mr. N. Carrothers's exhibit included Lathyrus 

 palustris, Rosa hibernica, Spiranthes Romanzoffiana from Count) 

 Down, Pyrola secunda from County Antrim, and Pyrola rotund- 

 i folia from Lancashire. Among the specimens of .Irish Lichens 

 shown by Mr. Glover Lichena pygmtea, Verrucaria niiida, Cladina 

 rangiferina, and Physeia estanea were noteworthy. Rev. Canon 

 Lett showed under cultivation the rare Hepatics, Dumortiera 

 irrigua, and Pellia calycina and herbarium specimens of some very 

 rare Mosses from Colin Glen. Mr. W. H. Phillips had some very 

 finely executed nature prints of British Ferns, and the Rev. C. H. 

 Waddell had an interesting exhibit of Botanical Specimens,, 

 among which we noted the Evening Primrose and Calamagrostis 

 Hookeri. 



In the Geological Section Mr. Robert Bell exhibited Cephal- 

 opoda from the Lower Lias, County Antrim. Mr. Charles Bulla's 

 exhibit of Carboniferous Fish-remains included representatives of 

 the following genera : — Cladodus, Cabadus, Deltoptyshius, Ordous, 

 and Colonodus. Mr. George Donaldson showed his prize 

 collection of local Cretaceous Fossils, and also Shells from the 

 Boulder-Clays of Antrim and Down. Dr. A. R. Dwerryhouse 

 exhibited a magnificent collection of fossil Echinodermata. Mr. 

 William Gray illustrated very fully the subject of " Limestone " in 

 its geological and economic aspects. His collection included the 

 chief minerals of which lime or calcite forms a part, and a variety 



