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dent for the ejisuing year, paid a well-deserved tribute of praise 

 to the long and valued services which he had ever cheerfully 

 given to the Club. From its earliest inception Mr. Robinson 

 had been intimately connected with its working, having been 

 a member of its first Committee, and for many years one of its 

 Honorary Secretaries during a period of its history requiring 

 the greatest care and watchfulness. 



Mr. LocKWooD, in seconding the Chairman's proposition, also 

 referred to Mr. Robinson's long and intimate connection with 

 the Club. 



The resolution on being put to the meeting was carried 

 unanimously. 



Mr. Robinson, in thanking the Chairman for the kind manner 

 in which he had referred to him, also the members for the 

 honour they had conferred on him, was at the request of Mr. 

 Gray invited to the chair, which he then vacated in his favour 

 amid applause. 



Mr. Joseph Wright, F.G.S., was unanimously elected to the 

 office of Vice-President, and Mr. S. A. Stewart, F.B.S.Edin., 

 to that of Honorary Treasurer. 



The Hon. Secretaries, Messrs. Swanston and Lockwood, were 

 re-elected, as were also the Committee, with the following new 

 members to fill the vacancies : — Mr. John J. Andrew, Mr. G. 

 Donaldson, and Mr. John Hamilton. 



The judges appointed to examine the collections sent in to 

 compete for the Club's prizes then read their awards, from 

 which it appeared that there were three geological collections 

 sent in. Mr. D. M'Kee was awarded the prize for a set of 

 Cretaceous fossils ; Mr. Robert J. Welch carried off the prize 

 t r a remarkably fine series of Liassic fossils ; while Mr. R. LI. 

 Praeger, B.A., was awarded the prize for a fine series of 137 

 species from the Post-tertiary beds of Belfast and Larne, a good 

 many of which are additions to the lists already published for 

 this district. Mr. Praeger was also awarded the prize for a 

 series of 203 species of flowering plants, each of which repre- 

 sents a species not included in the 475 plants collected in the 

 preceding year, thus bringing up the entire collection made by 



