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both being new County records : — Spiranthes Romanzoffiana for 

 Co. Tyrone, and Sisyrinchium angustifolium for Co. Leitrim. Mr. 

 S. A. Bennett found a flourishing colony of Carex teretiuscula at 

 Ballyalloly, Co. Down. On 7 th July Messrs. A. W. Stelfox and 

 S. Wear found Saxifraga Hircuhis still growing in quantity on 

 plateau behind Garron Point, Co. Antrim. On the hills near 

 Ligoniel the following plants were observed in new stations : — 

 Viola sylvestris, Pyrola media, P. minor, Lathraa squamaria, 

 Lislera cordata, Habenaria conopsea and Bottychium Lunaria. 



The best thanks of the Committee are given to membeis 

 who sent in plants for our Herbarium. 

 (Signed) 



N. Carrothers, Hon. Sec. of the Section. 



Report of the Geological Section. 



The Committee report that two excursions were held during 

 the past year, to quarries in neighbourhood of Carnmoney on 5th 

 September, 19 14, and Cloughfin on 19th September, 19 14. On 

 the first excursion Mr. Robert Bell, who conducted the party, 

 pointed out the following minerals — saponite, fayalite, chabazite, 

 calcite, thomsonite and gahnite. On the second excursion the 

 fossils Cardinium rhceticum, Avicula contorta, Exogyra conica, 

 Pecten orbicularis, P. quinquecostatus, Ventriculitis cribrosus, and 

 Etheridgia mirabilis were found ; also in the basalt cliffs, the 

 minerals gmelinite and analcite. On the evening of 16th March, 

 the Section held a meeting at which a number of interesting 

 exhibits were shown. On behalf of the members the Committee 

 desire to offer their best thanks to Professor Cole for having been 

 so kind as to present the Section with copies of the following 

 pamphlets : — " Geography of Ireland as a Field for Irish 

 Naturalists," " Wexford Gravels and their bearing on Interglacial 

 Geology," " Illustrations of the Formation of Composite 

 Gneisses," etc. 



(Signed) 



E. L. Andrews, Hon. Sec. of the Section. 



