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^th December^ 1893. 



Professor FitzGerald, B.A., M.I.C.E., in the Chair. 



Mr. W. H. Pattkrson, M.R.I. A., read a very interesting 



Paper on 



THE ANCIENT SHELL MOUNDS AT ROSAPENNA, 



COUNTY DONEGAL. 



The Lecturer illustrated his remarks by a numerous collection 

 of "finds," which he presented to the Museum. The "finds " 

 were diverse in their character, and their association with the 

 early inhabitants of this district was very evident. For the most 

 part they were fossilised remains of animals, which, according 

 to Mr. Patterson, had enjoyed life about the 9th or loth 

 centuries. 



Mr. Wm. Gray, M.R.I.A., said that Mr. Patterson's paper 

 referred to phenomena well known round the country, and 

 were associated with sand dunes, he might say, wherever to be 

 found. He agreed with Mr. Patterson that the remains belonged 

 to the 9th or loth centuries, and clearly did not belong to the 

 period three or four hundred years before Christ, such as the 

 remains found at Ballintoy and Dundrum. 



Report of Mr. A. Tate, C.E., 

 Delegate from Belfast Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society to Meeting of British Association at Nottiitgham, 

 1893, on the Conference of Delegates of the Corresponding 

 Societies at that Meeting. 



As the Delegate fi"om your Society to the Corresponding 

 Society's Committee of the British Association, at its last 



