Your Committee regret that the competition for the Prizes 

 offered by the Club has been so limited this year. The following 

 gentlemen kindly acted as Judges in awarding Prizes to the best 

 of the Collections submitted for competition : — 



Mr. Thomas M. Lindsay, 



Head Master of the Belfast Government School of Art ; 



Mr. Robert Young, C.E., 



Dr. James Moore, M.R.I.A., H.R.H.A., &c, 



Mr. S. A. Stewart, 



Mr. Robert Smith, 



And awarded Prizes to the following Members : — 



For the best Herbarium of Flowering Plants, Mr. Hugh Robinson. 

 For the Six best Field Sketches, Mr. F. W. Lockwood. 



Mr. Anderson's Prize for the best Measured 



Drawing, Mr. R. M. Young. 



Mr. Robinson's Collection included 312 species; Mr. Lockwood's 

 Sketches were of geological sections in the neighbourhood ; and 

 Mr. Young selected Newtownards old Church as his subject. 



In addition to the formal business of the Club at the Summer 

 Excursions and Winter Meetings, several of the members continue 

 to work in the promotion of their own favourite subjects. Mr. 

 Wright has, during the past year, made some additions to the list of 

 Liassic Foraminifera published last year ; and, in conjunction 

 with Mr. Stewart, has opened up a new field of investigation in 

 the Cretaceous Rocks, and already some 40 species of Foramini- 

 fera, Entomostraca, and Sponge Spiculse, have been found in the 

 Chalk and Flints of County Antrim. The Members in charge of 

 the local collection in the Museum have continued their labours, 

 and during the past year were chiefly employed in re- arranging the 

 Herbarium. 



Your Committee deeply deplore the loss the Club has sustained 

 during the past year by the lamented death of Mr. Robert 

 Patterson, F.R.S., who was widely and honorably known in the 



