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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. 
