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The Second Meeting of the Winter Session was held on 

 14th December, in the Museum — Canon Grainger, D.D., 

 M.R.I.A., President, in the chair. 



The programme of the evening embraced three distinct items. 

 Before proceeding with these, however, the Hon. Secretary 

 begged leave to read a minute that had been prepared by a 

 small sub-committee on the late lamented death of a fellow- 

 member : — '' In referring to the decease of our late colleague, 

 S. M. Malcomson, M.D., it is with the keenest regret that one so 

 young and promising has been removed, just as his work 

 amongst us had been commenced." 



Dr. Malcomson was son of the late Mr. Samuel Malcomson. 

 He was born at Belfast in November, 1857, and educated at 

 Friends' School, Newton, County Waterford, and with private 

 tutors. He matriculated in Queen's University in 1875, and, 

 having chosen the medical profession, he graduated M.D. and 

 M.Ch. in 1879. Dr. Malcolmson became a member of the 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club in 1879, ^^^ being recognised as 

 one likely to contribute time and talent to the work of the Club, 

 he was elected on the commitee in April, 1882. The anticipa- 

 tions thus formed were not destined to be disappointed, as the 

 record of his work will show. In 1 879 he commenced examining 

 rock-pools and shore gatherings at Rockport, in Belfast Lough, 

 for Foraminifera, and two years were spent at this work, his 

 researches being thorough and exhaustive. The result of this 

 investigation was a list of eighty-seven species two of which had 

 not previously been found in Britain, and another, which, though 

 known as British, was an addition to the Irish fauna. All these 

 discoveries have been communicated to the Club, Mr. Wright 

 having included them in his report on the Foraminifera of the 

 cruise made by the Club in June, 1885, and published in the 

 Appendix to our Proceedings for 1884-85. Subsequently, Dr. 

 Malcomson made recent British Ostracoda his special study. In 

 the appendix just referred to he contributed an important paper 

 on the Ostracoda of Belfast Lough and Irish Channel. In this 

 paper he recorded 100 species. This is a most valuable paper 

 to those studying the geographical distribution of these lowly 



