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to illustrate methods of mounting ; frog-spawn freshly 

 gathered, in which were included many freshly-hatched tad- 

 poles of the mature age of a few minutes, &c, &c. Amongst 

 the exhibitors were Messrs. William Gray, M.R.I.A.; Alexander 

 Tate, C.E., M.R.I.A. ; John Donaldson, J. J. Andrew, L.D.S. ; 

 G. Elliot, R. Welch, and others. The election of some new 

 members brought the meeting to a close. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the club was held in 

 the Museum, College Square North, on Wednesday evening, 

 1 6th April, the President (Mr. W. Gray, ^M.R.I.A.) in the 

 chair. 



The President opened the business of the evening by calling 

 for the Secretaries' report, which, with the statement of 

 accounts, appears in full in the earlier pages of this part of 

 the Proceedings. 



The Treasurer (Mr. S. A. Stewart, F.B.S.E.) who was next 

 called on, gave a satisfactory account of the Club's finances for 

 the past year. 



On the motion ot Rev. C. Herbert Waddell, M.A., seconded 

 by Mr. H. S. Jefferson, the report and statement of accounts 

 were received and ordered to be printed. 



The next business was the election of Office-bearers for the 

 ensuing year. Mr. W. Gray, M.R.I.A, was re-elected President, 

 and Mr. John Vinycomb, Vice-President. Mr. S. A. Stewart 

 resumed office as Treasurer. Mr. W. Swanston, F.G.S., Senior 

 Hon. Secretary, having tendered his resignation, his colleague, 

 Mr. F. W. Lockwood, assumed the Senior Secretaryship ; and 

 Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, B.E., was elected to fill the vacancy thus 

 created. 



Mr. Lockwood spoke in suitable terms of the great services 

 rendered to the Club by Mr. Swanston during his long period 

 of office, and moved — " That the members of the Belfast 



