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number of interesting details connected with the old raths,. 

 photographs of many of them being thrown on the screen. He 

 also had shown a number of views depicting present-day life on 

 the banks of Lough Neagh, and these added materially to the 

 interest of the lecture. 



Before the conclusion of the meeting Miss Rynes, Miss 

 Houston, Master Ian Stewart, and Master C. V. R. Blackwood 

 were elected members. 



FOREST TREES. 



At the second meeting of the Junior Section of the Club, 

 held on Wednesday, 3rd January, in the Museum, a short paper 

 was given by Mr. Arthur Deane on forest trees. The chair was 

 occupied by Mr. Robert Welch. Numerous specimens of shoots, 

 leaves, &c, kindly supplied by Mr. Davis, of the Botanic 

 Gardens, were afterwards examined by the members with much 

 interest. On 5th January a number of Junior members of the 

 Club met in the Municipal Museum, Royal Avenue, where 

 the exhibits were explained by the assistant curator, Mr, 

 J. A. S. Stendall. 



RARE BIROS IN THE MUNICIPAL COLLECTION. 



At the second meeting of the Zoological Section of the Club, 

 held in the Museum, on Wednesday, 10th January, an interesting 

 paper on the above subject was read by Mr. J. A. S. Stendall. 

 The Chairman of the Section, Mr. Nevin H. Foster, occupied the 

 chair. Mr. Stendall chose for his subject eighteen of the rarest 

 specimens in the municipal collection, and briefly described their 

 history from the date and place of their capture till the present 

 day. Seventeen of these birds belonged to the Belfast Natural 

 History and Philosophical Society's collection, which had recently 

 been transferred to the Belfast Corporation. The actual speci- 

 mens referred to, being on exhibition during the lecture, added 

 greatly to the interest of the meeting, especially as these had 



