Ihe Irish Naturalist. 



April, 



with any success stratigraphically. A descriptive label has 

 been typed for each of the orders, and also for most of the 

 fossils, showing, where possible, their nearest living commonly- 

 known relatives. One shelf has been devoted to fossil plants. 

 ^The minerals were divided into rock-forming and other 

 miiierals, the former being followed on the shelves by the 

 rocks themselves. Here again descriptive labels and defini- 

 tions of minerals, rocks, &c., with their classification have 

 been typed, and where any mineral or rock is used commer- 

 cially this has been noted, for instance, the making of rock 

 crystal into spectacles. Specimens of the common ores are 

 also -represented. What vacant spaces were left on the walls 

 fof: the case, and on the doors where they did not interfere with 

 .the view, were filled with local and other geological photo- 

 graphs, mainly belonging to the British Association series, 

 i^his section was arranged by Miss M. K. Andrews and G. C. 

 Oough, assisted by R. Bell. 



5 IV.— Kthnoi^ogicai, Kxhibits. 



:Two window-cases are devoted to stone implements and 

 ^ytchen-midden finds connected with primitive man in 

 ilreland ; flints from various local settlements, bones from 

 .Bundoran, Dundrum Bayj and Sydenham, contributed and 

 arranged by Mr. W. H. Patterson ; he also gave shells of 

 Species used for food from the shell mounds or kitchen- 

 middens at Bundoran. Pictures, as in other sections, illustrate 

 the above in a popular manner. Models of a cromlech, 

 souterrain, dun, &c., made and lent by Mr. W. Gray, occupy 

 one tablC) while a window case contains many foreign exhibits 

 of interest. 



, A few exhibits in all the sections have been lent, such as 

 .some very fine cases from the circulation branch of the 



Museum in Dublin, heads of cattle bred by the King, lent by 

 ^jSawers, L<td., &c., &c., but as before stated, the great majority 

 iOf the specimens are permanent gifts. A complete list of the 



donors will be given in a special report to be issued by the 

 ,eommittee of the People's Palace. 



Belfast. 



