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The Chairman, on rising, congratulated the audience on being 

 favoured with such an interesting run through the lower organic 

 world, and said that frequently distinguished men were brought 

 to Belfast from a distance to lecture, but he was compelled to 

 admit that he had never attended so instructive and so well 

 illustrated a lecture as the one that had been just delivered. 

 Several other members spoke in very complimentary terms of 

 both the lecture and the manner in which it was brought 

 forward. 



An election of new members and the examination of the 

 extensive series of specimens on the table concluded the meeting. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 

 The twenty-third annual meeting was held on 21st April, 

 in the Museum, College Square. The President (Rev. Canon 

 Grainger, D.D., M.R.I.A.) occupied the chair. There was a 

 good attendance of the more active members, and a hearty 

 interest was evinced in the business of the evening. 



The President, on opening the meeting, called on the Hon. 

 Secretaries for their Annual Report of the Committee, of which 

 the following is a summary : — 



Your Committee, in again meeting you at the close of another 

 year, have the pleasure of reporting a continuance of the pros- 

 perity which has marked the Club's history from its commence- 

 ment. The Summer Session may be considered to have been a 

 successful one, the usual number of excursions having been 

 held, and the localities selected proved suitable for furthering 

 the Club's aims and objects. It is to be regretted that the un- 

 favourable weather, on the occasion of the " long excursion " to 

 the Mourne Mountains, prevented the full programme from 

 being carried out. Much good work was, however, done on 

 the excursion, as may be seen from the report of the conductor. 



A sub-committee having been appointed at the last annual 

 meeting to make arrangements — if found practicable — for carry- 

 ing out a dredging excursion in the lough, that excursion took 



