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It is scarcely needful to remind the earlier members of the 

 Club, but those who have joined in more recent years may be 

 interested to learn the great services rendered by Mr. Robinson 

 in the founding of the Club and the earlier administration of 

 its affairs. Mr. Robinson has himself — but with a modesty in 

 which his own share is almost entirely suppressed — in a recent 

 number of our Proceedings narrated its history ; and if in those 

 days the success of the Club was largely due to the ubiquitous 

 energy of our President, Mr. Gray, it was in an equal degree 

 the result of the business habits and assiduous attention to 

 necessary details of his colleague, whose untimely loss we have 

 now to deplore. 



Your Committee again have to thank a number of kindred 

 societies and public bodies for the interchange of copies of their 

 Proceedings and other publications. By these means a valuable 

 collection of works continues to be added to the Club's 

 property. 



Your Committee are glad to state that arrangements have 

 been made for the continuation of the Annual Meteorological 

 Reports which formerly embellished their Proceedings, and 

 which have been discontinued since 1887, owing to the death 

 of Mr. Lancelot Turtle, who for many years supplied an annual 

 summary. They tender their thanks to the Council of Queen's 

 College, Belfast, for kind permission to use the valuable 

 meteorological records kept at that institution, and they expect 

 that the next number of Proceedings will contain not only a 

 meteorological summary of the current season, but the arrears 

 of the last two years. 



It is to be regretted that the Competition for the prizes 

 offered by the Club has this year been almost totally neglected 

 by the members, only one collection having been sent in, and the 

 Committee trust that more attention will be given during the 

 ensuing season to this most valuable branch of the Club's work. 



The following is the report of the judges on the collection 

 mentioned : — 



