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 1870, 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 
