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Winter Session 



NOTE. — The authors of the various Papers of which abstracts are given, 

 are alone responsible for the views expressed in them. 



CONVERSAZIONE. 



The Winter Session opened with a Conversazione, held in 

 the Carlton Hall on 24th October, at which about 250 members 

 and friends were present. Tea was served from 7-30 till 8-30 

 o'clock. Members contributed the following exhibits : — 



Geology — Minerals from Co. Antrim, Mr. Robert Bell; 

 core of Permian conglomerate 500 feet below Belfast, Mr. R. 

 May ; fossils from Carboniferous rocks in neighbourhood of 

 Bundoran, also fossils from Cretaceous rocks at Hillsport, Mrs. 

 A. M'l. Cleland ; specimens illustrating the growth of coal, 

 Mr. A. M'l. Cleland : fossil and recent Foraminifera viewed with 

 the microscope, Mr. Joseph Wright; models of Inishowen and 

 Belfast districts, Dr. J. K. Charlesworth ; model made from a 

 Bartholomew map ^ inch equal one mile, by the pupils in fifth 

 form, Richmond Lodge Girls' School; model made from Ordnance 

 Survey map 1 inch to a mile, by pupils in sixth form, Richmond 

 Lodge High -School, Belfast, Miss Houston. 



Botany — Abnormal specimens of Plantago Coronopus shewing 

 branched inflorescences, Professor R. H. Yapp ; Andromeda 

 Polifoiia from Co. Down and Co. Antrim, also a fine collection of 

 other Irish plants, Mr. N. Carrothers ; abnormal Lolium perenne 

 var. compositum, Rev. W. R. Megaw ; Mr. Stelfox showed a plant 

 of Geranwm columbinum from a new Co. Down station, about 1 ^ 

 miles south of Bangor, where it grows abundantly in an old 

 disused field-quarry, and was recently discovered by Mr. R. A. 

 Phillips, M.R.I. A.; Elymus arenarius from Portrush, Mr. Sylvanus 



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