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ledge the generous hospitality of Mr. James Heron, J.P., at 

 Killyleagh, and Captain Archdall, D.L., at Castle Archdall, on 

 the occasion of the Club's visits to these places ; and to Mr. 

 Thomas Plunkett, J. P., M.R.I.A., the best thanks of the Club 

 are due for his valuable assistance at the three day excursion to 

 Lough Erne. A number of country members of the Club also 

 merit recognition of assistance given to the Secretaries in 

 making arrangements of excursions to their respective dis- 

 tricts. 



The Winter Session was opened on October 20th with a 

 social meeting in the Belfast Museum, at which the attendance 

 of members and visitors numbered 36c, being the largest 

 recorded for many years. In connection with this meeting 

 your Committee would return thanks to Messrs. Wm. Ewart & 

 Sons (Limited), for their interesting display illustrative of the 

 linen industry on that occasion. Five ordinary winter meet- 

 ings were held, at which there was an average attendance of 

 100 members and visitors, being a decided increase on the 

 winter attendances of some years past. The subjects brought 

 before the Club on these occasions were as follow : — 



17th Nov. 1. Presidential Address. 



2. "On the cross of Donaghmore, County Down" — Rev. H. W. Lett, 



M.A. 



3. "A Notice of the ancient Celtic shrine recently obtained by Mr. 



Thomas Plunkett in Lough Erne" — Francis Joseph Bigger, 

 junior secretary. 



15th Dec. 1. "Falconry'' — Arthur J. Collins. 



2. " Remarks on a fossiliferous Eocene ironstone nodule from the 

 Boulder Clay at Stoneyford " — William Swanston, F.G.S. 



19th Jan. "The Beetles of the Belfast District" — Rev. W. F. Johnson, M.A., 



F.E.S. 



1 6th Feb. i. "The late Mr. John Templeton's work among the birds of the dis- 

 trict, and some MS. notes of his recently discovered " — Rev. C. 

 H. Waddell, M.A. 



2. " On the occurrence of flint flakes in the Glacial gravels of Bally- 



rudder, County Antrim " — W. J. Knowles, M.R.I.A. 



3. " On a large jar or amphora (probably Roman or Grecian) recently 



obtained by sponge divers in the Bay of Ekanjik, near Rhodes " 

 — Francis Joseph Bigger, junior secretary. 



