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Hog Park side a profusion of the Hard Shield Fern, Aspidium 

 aculeatum. When the various groups into which the party had 

 split up foregathered again for afternoon tea under the shade of 

 the trees at Selshan Cottage, there was a general comparing of 

 notes and collections. The botanists had done excellent work, 

 and were well satisfied; the geologists had not done any collecting, 

 but they had studied the interesting physical features of the 

 district, and noted some excellent examples of a submerged forest 

 and peat beds on the shore of the lough ; while the zoologists had 

 been noting various things of importance to them, and reported 

 that during the day forty species of Birds were observed about the 

 lough. In one meadow the motions and anxious calls of 

 Lapwings and Redshanks testified to their having young among 

 the herbage, the place affording typical nesting-ground for these 

 birds. The most interesting ornithological observation consisted 

 in the recognition of a Turnstone (it is probable there were three 

 or four of them) on the boulder-clad shore just north of Hog Park 

 Point. This bird is usually regarded in this country as a Winter 

 visitant, but has been noted by the sea coast in small numbers 

 occasionally throughout the Summer, and had been observed at 

 Lough Neagh in the month of May, 1902. The dry weather 

 conditions caused the collection of invertebrates to be rather 

 meagre. Four species of Terrestrial Isopods were noted, but 

 these included one — Porcellio pictus — which is not regarded as 

 common. The Spiders, Harvestmen, and Myriapods collected 

 did not contain anything new to Co. Antrim. 



After tea, the customary short business meeting was held, 

 the ex-president, the Rev. Canon Lett, presiding. Mr. Nevin H. 

 Foster acted as secretary pro tern., and announced that three new 

 members had been nominated, namely, Miss Dick, Miss Twaddell, 

 and Mr. Thomas Lawrie, all of whom were duly elected. He 

 then announced that Professor Yapp, of Queen's University, who 

 was present, had been chosen as the Club's Delegate to the 

 Committee of Corresponding Societies of the British Association, 

 at Manchester, in September. The business meeting over, a 



