PREFACE. 



N the Annual Report of the Club for the year ending 

 31st March, 1870, it was stated that "The Committee 

 considered it advisable that the Club should prepare 

 complete lists of the Fauna, Flora, Geology, and Archaeology of 

 Ulster, by publishing an annual contribution to such a work in 

 addition to the ordinary Report." The purpose thus indicated 

 has been kept steadily in view, the work being inaugurated by 

 Professor Ralph Tate, F.G.S., in a paper issued in 187O3 as an 

 appendix to the Report of that year. Owing to the long- 

 continued researches, and the special knowledge required on the 

 part of the authors of the lists, it has not been found possible to 

 publish an appendix every year, nevertheless the series at the 

 present time numbers twenty-one separate papers, extending over 

 342 pages, illustrated by 27 plates. Thus, though there have 

 been occasional breaks in the regularity of the issue, it has so 

 happened that sometimes several contributions were received and 

 printed in one year, and accordingly the promise has been more 

 than fulfilled. 



The papers that form the present volume have all appeared as 

 appendices to the Club's Proceedings, which are printed and dis- 

 tributed annually, but, with a view to their publication in a 

 collected form, the appendices have been separately paged. In 

 these Memoirs, there are given the results of long-continued and 

 laborious research by members of the Club, in the subjects as to 



