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Wear; plants from Cushendun and Cushendall, Miss S. Blackwood; 

 common wild plants from Belfast and district, Mr. J. R. H. 

 Greeves ; common wild plants from Knock and district, Mr. H. C. 

 Baker ; shore plants of Co. Down, Mr. S. A. Bennett ; Senecio 

 cineraria from Dalkey, Dublin, Mr. James Orr. 



Zoology — Irish false scorpions and non-Irish woodlice, also 

 maps illustrating the recorded distribution of false scorpions in 

 Ireland, Mr. Nevin H. Foster ; living reversed Helix nemora/is, 

 also collection of land and freshwater shells, Mr. E. Forster 

 Green ; microscopical exhibition of living pond life, Mr. W. 

 Duncan; cheese-mite under microscope, also living land Mollusca, 

 also kinematograph film — Life of the Spider — Mr. J. A. S. Stendall; 

 species of Mycetozoa from the Counties of Antrim, Down and 

 Leitrim, Miss M. W. Rea ; Mr. A. W. Stelfox showed specimens 

 of Pisidium supinum A. Schmidt, from England (recent and fossil) 

 and from the River Suir, in Ireland (fossil), also specimens of 

 Pisidium parvulum Clessin, from the Thames basin, England 

 (recent and fossil), and from the Rivers Shannon, Barrow, and 

 Suir, in Ireland (fossil). Both species have but recently been 

 added to the Irish fauna by Mr. R. A. Phillips, M.R.I. A., the 

 last mentioned shell being also new to Great Britain. In Ireland, 

 however, they have not yet been found alive. 



Archeology — Members of the Club were pleased to see an 

 excellent exhibit, by Mr. William Gray, of choice specimens of 

 flint celts, scrapers, etc., from Portrush and other centres of Co. 

 Antrim. Miss Mawdsley showed autograph letters from John 

 Howard (1770-1775), the Prison Philanthropist. Mrs. A. M'l. 

 Cleland exhibited the poor's book and account book of the 

 Rev. Joshua Symonds, Bedford, 1 768-1 780. Mr. A. M'L Cleland 

 showed an interesting collection of tally-sticks from Clermont- 

 Ferrand, France. Miss S. Blackwood had an important collection 

 of Egyptian antiquities, including a figure of Osiris, XII. Dynasty, 

 a " Ku" figure and a neck ornament and ivory bracelet taken from 

 a mummy on the borders of Egypt and the Soudan, also a bronze 



