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to devote much time personally to natural research, but their 

 presence and sympathy with our work will not fail to encourage 

 those, whom we hope will always constitute the larger proportion 

 of our members, who are actively engaged in those pursuits 

 which the Club was organized to promote. 



The usual interchange of our Proceedings with other kindred 

 societies has been maintained, and we are indebted to this 

 source for some valuable additions to our library. 



As the Report and Proceedings for 1879-80 formed the con- 

 clusion of the first volume of the second series, your Committee, 

 during the course of the year, prepared and issued an index to 

 the whole, in such a form as to admit of being bound up with 

 the volume. Appended to it was also an index to the Club's 

 album, which may prove useful in keeping the existence of this 

 valuable repository before the notice of the members. 



The Club's Guide to Belfast and neighbourhood, which was 

 prepared on the occasion of the visit of the British Association, 

 in 1874, continues to be in demand. Upwards of one thousand 

 copies have now been disposed of, but a few are still on hand 

 which can be obtained through members of the Committee at 

 a reduced rate, by any who desire to possess this interesting 

 and instructive volume. 



We append Report of the Sub-Committee appointed to 

 adjudicate upon the collections, &c., submitted in competition 

 for the prizes offered by the Club. 



Mr. Charles Bulla submits a collection of Cretaceous fossils 

 in competition for prize 7, it embraces 40 recognisable species, 

 represented in most cases by several examples ; besides several 

 mounts of specimens not sufficiently well preserved for identi- 

 fication. One specimen, Salenia geometrica^ an echinoderm in 

 the collection, deserves special notice, it being new to the 

 Antrim Chalk. The judges have pleasure in awarding the 

 prize to Mr. Bulla. 



In competition for Prize 14 — For the best set of 25 micro- 

 scopic slides, there are two collections submitted — one by Mr. 

 Gray, and one by the Rev. H. W. Lett, both possess sufficient 



