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APPENDIX 



SUMMARY OF RECENT GLACIAL INVESTIGATIONS 

 BY THE BELFAST NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 



Compiled by Madame Rodolphe Christen (Miss Sydney M. 

 Thompson). 



Fully a dozen years have elapsed since a circular was sent 

 to our Club by Mr. Percy F. Kendall, M.Sc, Secretary of the 

 British Association Erratic Blocks Committee, requesting the 

 Club to co-operate by examining the glacial phenomena of our 

 district, with especial reference to the distribution of erratics in 

 the drift. A ready response was given by the Club, and a 

 geological section formed for the express purpose of conducting 

 the inquiries, and a collection of Irish rocks commenced, to 

 assist in identifying the parent locality from which the erratics 

 had travelled, specimens of Scotch rocks likely to occur being 

 presented by Mr. Kendall. A room was acquired at the 

 Museum where meetings could be held and collections and 

 instruments stored. The patient accumulation of a multitude 

 of details on many points was willingly undertaken by many 

 members of the Club, as well as by the little group specially 

 appointed ; and erratics from outlying districts were received 

 from time to time, invaluable assistance being also given by 

 Mr. S. A. Stewart, A.L.S., F.B.S.E., and Mr. Joseph Wright, 

 F.G.S., whose works on the Mollusca 1 and Microzoa 2 of our 

 boulder clays rank amongst the classics of British glacial 

 literature. 



1. Mollusca of the Boulder clay of the N.E. of Ireland. Proc. B.N.F.C. 



(2) I. Appendix for 1879-80, p. 165. 



2. Post-tertiary Foraminifera of the N.E. of Ireland. Proc. B.N.F.C. 



(2) I. 1879-80, p. 428. 



