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i" On the Worked Flints from the Raised Beaches at Larne and 

 elsewhere in the North of Ireland," by Mr. W. J. Knowlcs, 

 M.R.I.A. 



lind Mar. VI. — Microscopic Evening, by the members generally. 



A valuable contribution to local botany appears as an appendix 

 in the part of your proceedings just issued. It is a list of the 

 ferns of Ulster, including their varieties, and is the joint labour 

 of Messrs. W. H. Phillips and Mr. R. LI. Praeger, B.A. 



Your Committee, with a view of enriching your Photo- 

 Album of Antiquities, offered a prize to be competed for by the 

 Ulster Amateur Photographic Society. It is gratifying to find 

 that this prize has been won by your fellow-member, Mr. Wm. 

 Gray. 



Your Committee, in order to bring more conveniently before 

 the public the valuable papers which from time to time have 

 been issued in the form of appendices to your annual Reports 

 and Proceedings, have ordered a limited number of the extra 

 copies to be bound. These form a neat and desirable volume, 

 of great local interest. 



The number of members on the roll is about the same as 

 at the close of last year. Among those removed by death, your 

 Committee regret to record the loss of Dr. S. M. Malcomson, 

 one of your most ardent and active members. A short sketch 

 of his brief, but promising career will be embodied in your 

 Proceedings. Your Committee also regret to record the death 

 of Dr. John Beck, who, though joining your Club in maturer 

 years, took a deep and hearty interest in its work. 



Your Committee take this opportunity of thanking all who 

 have in any way contributed to the success of the excursions, 

 by guiding the parties to places of interest or otherwise assisting, 

 and would especially name Major Maxwell and the Rev. David 

 Gordon, for their kindness on the occasion of the visit to Down- 

 patrick; and to Canon Ross and T. J. G. Fleming, Esq., F.G.S., 

 for their attention when visiting Limavady and neighbourhood ; 

 also to H. S. M'Clintock, Esq., for leave to hold a Fungus Foray 

 in Hillsborough demesne. 



