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the direction of Mr. Joseph Wright, F.G.S., arid Mr. W. 

 Swanston, F.G.S., was that of dredging appliances and the 

 results of sea dredging, illustrating the dredging excursion of 

 the Club off the Maidens, &c., last June, and the dredging 

 expedition under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy off 

 the south west coast of Ireland, in which several of the Club's 

 members took a prominent part. Here were shown dredges, 

 rope, sounding lines, trays, an^ sieves, with samples of sand 

 from the bed of the Atlantic, and the same in various stages 

 of preparation for examination under the microscope. The 

 most interesting result of the Club's recent dredging off our 

 lough was the discovery that a peculiar branching foraminifer 

 of the arenaceous type, Hyperaminina arboresceits, found only 

 twice previously off the west coast of Scotland, is in reality 

 extremely common off our coast. 



OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



Perhaps nothing has made so rapid a progress amongst 

 members of the Club as the practice of outdoor photography, 

 and the members' work was specially illustrated on the present 

 occasion. Mr. William Gray, M.R.I.A., and Mr. George 

 Donaldson, showed a large collection of photographs, chiefly 

 of antiquities in Ulster ; Mr. Stelfox, of micro-photographs and 

 instantaneous views of, and in Tory Island ; Mr. John Donald- 

 son, of photomicrographs ; Rev. H. W. Lett, of fungi ; Mr. 

 Meneely, Mr. George Ward, Mr. Nichol, and Mr. Welch, a 

 number of striking photographs, archaeological and general. 

 Mr. James Wilson showed a number of fine pictures, some 

 of them upon dry plates of his own making, the first, it is 

 believed, made in Belfast. An album lent by Mr. Greenwood 

 Pim, F.L.S., of Dublin, containing a series of photographs of 

 tree trunks, was much admired, and set an example to other 

 naturalists of the practical direction their photographic 

 studies ought to take. There were also a large number of 

 cameras and other photographic appliances exhibited by 

 different members. 



Amongst the collections sent in for the Club's prizes at the 

 last annual meeting were now exhibited a fine collection of 



