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The question of the furthering of the science of micro- 

 scopy by the Club's agency having been brought before the 

 Committee, was referred to a general meeting, at which it was 

 decided to form a special Section of the Club for the prosecution 

 and encouragement of microscopical work. This Section, which 

 has its own Chairman and Committee of Management, held its 

 Inaugural Meeting on March 17th, when twenty members 

 attended with their instruments, and illustrated nearly as many 

 different branches of microscopical research, to the satisfaction of 

 a company of some two hundred members and their friends. 



The Committee trust that the new Section will receive the 

 support of all members who are interested in this important 

 department of the Club's work. Application for membership 

 of the Section, which does not involve any additional fee, should 

 be made to the Secretary of the Section, Mr. H. M'Cleery, 

 82 Cliftonpark Avenue, Belfast. 



By a resolution passed at last Annual Meeting, a special 

 committee was appointed for the purpose of systematising the 

 photographic work of the Club. The report of this committee 

 will be laid before the meeting. 



The means available for the cataloguing and storing of the 

 Club's books and exchanges having been considered by the 

 Committee, an application was made to a general meeting of 

 the Club for power to approach the management of the Belfast 

 Free Public Library with a view of ascertaining whether certain 

 privileges of consultation would be granted to members, should 

 the Club hand over to the Library their entire collection of 

 books. This sanction was duly obtained, and overtures were 

 made to the Library Committee, but your Committee regret 

 that the terms proposed on behalf of the Library were not such 

 as they considered themselves justified in accepting. 



The Committee have pleasure in being this year again in a 

 position to publish in the Proceedings a meteorological sum- 

 mary, such as was for many years contributed by the kindness 

 of the late Mr. Lancelot Turtle, J. P. Abstracts for the last 



