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Prizes Sub-Committee by J. A. Sidney Stendall. Dr. Charlesworth sub- 

 mitted his report as Delegate to the Committee of Corresponding Societies 

 of the British Association. These reports were adopted. 



Major A. R. Dwerryhouse, D.Sc, F.G.S., M.R.I. A., was re-elected 

 President ; A. M'l. Cleland, Vice-President ; S. M. Macoun, Treasurer ; 

 Sylvanus Wear, Librarian ; Miss M. W. Rea and Dr. Charlesworth, 

 Honorary Secretaries. The Sectional Secretaries were elected as follows : 

 Geological, Miss E. L. Andrews ; Botanical, S. A. Bennett ; Zoological, 

 C. G. Robertson ; Archaeological, Robert May ; Junior, J. A. Sidney 

 Stendall, and Associate, S. A. Bennett. A ballot was taken for three 

 Members of Committee, and W. B. Burrowes, Joseph Maxwell, J. P., 

 and Joseph Skillen were declared elected. 



Suggestions for places to be visited on the Summer excursions were 

 put forward ; and it was pointed out that the usual scope of these 

 must for this year be necessarily curtailed as the Railway Companies 

 were unable, under existing circumstances, to give excursion fares. 

 S. C. Porter, B.L., and W. Keiller having been elected ordinary members, 

 the proceedings terminated with the passing of a vote of thanks to N. H. 

 Foster for his services to the Club during the past fourteen years. 



May 19. — Excursion to Duncrue. — A party numbering 63 proceeded 

 to Carrickfergus by the 1.20 train from Belfast to visit the Duncrue Salt 

 Mines, for which kind permission had been given by Mr. Miscampbell, 

 J. P. The descent was safely accomplished in buckets, the party, as on a 

 similar occasion, proceeding by twos. After the descent the members, 

 each armed with a candle, proceeded to an examination of the mine. 

 The mines were illuminated by coloured lights, and after a brief account 

 of the geology of the salt beds and their mode of origin by the conductor, 

 Dr. Charlesworth, the party ascended. The boiling sheds were next 

 visited, where the salt is freed of chemical and detrital impurities, and 

 prepared. 



June 2. — Excursion to Dundonald. — A party of about forty-five 

 met the conductor (A. M'l. Cleland) at Dundonald Station and walked 

 to an adjacent field, in which were two fine examples of " standing stones." 

 From thence the members proceeded to the Kempe Stone, where a halt 

 was made whilst the conductor gave a short description of this monument 

 of the past and similar structures, illustrating his remarks by a series of 

 photographs. A short walk through the grounds of Rockfield House 

 brought the party to a quarry in the Triassic sandstone, covered by a thick 

 cap of Boulder-clay. After a few remarks from Dr. J. K. Charlesworth 

 as to the points to be observed in the quarry, an adjournment was made 

 to Dundonald Presbyterian Church, where the Rev, J. Bingham very 

 kindly had on exhibition a fine sixteenth-century treasure chest. 



June 16. — Excursion to Hillsborough and Lisburn. — Eighty 

 members and friends travelled by the two o'clock train to Hillsborough, 

 and under the conductorship of N. H. Foster walked to the Lagan Canal 

 at Newport and thence to Lisburn. On arrival at Lisburn the party 

 proceeded to the Cathedral, which by kind permission of Rev. Canon 

 Pounden had been kindly opened for their inspection. 



