of this Club have been permitted to re-arrange the valuable local 

 collections in the Museum, according to the suggestion in the 

 Report for last year ; and a large sum has been granted by the 

 Council for cases, &c, so as to exhibit a complete local collection. 

 Several members of the Club have been working industriously in 

 this department during the past year, and already the local Land, 

 Fresh water, and Marine Shells, have been named and arranged. 

 The Herbarium is in progress, and the Geological Collection 

 selected and named, ready for mounting. The Committee have also 

 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 first instalment of which ("A List of 

 the Irish Liassic Fossils, with Notes on the New and Critical 

 Species," by Mr. Ralph Tate, Assoc. Lin. Soc, F.G.S., &c), is 

 appended to the present report. All future contributions of this 

 nature will be illustrated when special forms have to be described. 

 Your Committee have also determined to provide a Portfolio 

 for the reception of Sketches, Measurements, or Illustrations of 

 Natural History, Geology, Archaeology, &c, and they recommend 

 that the members and friends of the Society should embrace every 

 opportunity to multiply records of this description, to be perma- 

 nently secured in the Club's portfolio. Your Committee appointed 

 Dr. James Thomson and Rev. Dr. Macllwaine to be the 

 judges of the collections sent in competition for the prizes ; 

 but regret to say that the number of competitors has not been so 

 great as the work to be done would justify. Of the collections 

 submittted — Miss Lester's obtained the First Prize for Lepidoptera, 

 and Mr. S. A. Stewart's the First Prize for Mosses. In conclusion, 

 your Committee, calculating upon the zeal and activity of many of 

 the members, have every reason to hope that the Club will con- 

 tinue to work and prosper. 



WILLIAM GRAY, ) „ 



[ Honorary 



HUGH ROBINSON, f Secretarus - 



