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antiquities ever placed before the members — monuments of 

 surpassing interest, mounds, churches, crosses, castles, and 

 round towers forming a collection which, with a panorama 

 of wonderful scenery, gave a variety which it would be difficult 

 to equal in a two days' excursion elsewhere in the British 

 Isles. Again, Ballycastle and Carlingford, two other excur- 

 sions, always attractive for their scenery, are equally so 

 to lovers of the past. Is it any wonder, then, that those 

 members who have added photography to their many other 

 pursuits, availed themselves of these attractive programmes and 

 formed a feature with camera and apparatus, rather novel, we 

 must confess, and at first sight apparently an innovation at 

 field club excursions ? It is this new element, or I might 

 almost call "it, new section of the club's members, which is, 

 perhaps, most in need of reorganisation. At present there 

 is no place for them ; they do not fit into any department 

 properly. True, the club has a series of photo albums, and 

 offers annually prizes for photos to fill these ; but there is a 

 lack of system in even this. The same popular subjects are 

 frequently repeated, to the almost entire exclusion of the study 

 and search after the detail, which often tell more of the past 

 story of the object represented than the most artistically ren- 

 dered picture would do. I might be pardoned for suggesting 

 that we take a lesson out of the action of the British Associa- 

 tion, to which I have already referred, and commit these 

 albums to a sub committee, which might direct and regulate 

 the intense energy of our photographic members. Lists might 

 be issued periodically of the objects already represented in the 

 albums, and help might be given in also noting such as are 

 desired. The results should also be printed in some of the 

 approved permanent processes of photo-printing, and more often 

 made accessible to the members than once a year, as is pretty 

 much the case at present ; the pictures should also be sup- 

 plemented by short descriptive notes published in our proceed 

 ings from time to time. Many of the English societies largely 

 employ photography in their work, and it is well known that 



