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A. H. Tate and Messrs. William Gray, M.R.I.A. ; A. Tate, C.E.|; 

 D. C. Beggs, W. Hanna, B.A. ; James Leslie, and R. Welch 

 also showed series of photographs taken on the trips of last 

 summer, and reminding members of pleasant drives through 

 country lanes, or walks over heathery hilltops, or boating 

 expeditions on sea, lake, and river, and of many other 

 incidents of the summer programme. Among the other exhibits 

 in the photographic department was a set of geological photo- 

 graphs by Miss M. K. Andrews, some very fine enlargements by 

 Mr. William Gray, and a most interesting set of photographs of 

 astronomical objects and apparatus, taken at the Lick Observa- 

 tory in California, and shown by Mr. Isaac Ward. Displayed 

 on a long table across the end of the lecture hall was a series 

 illustrating the various processes in the manufacture of linen, 

 obligingly supplied by Messrs. W. Ewart & Sons, Ltd. At one 

 end of the table was a box of flaxseed and a bundle of flax, at the 

 other finished linen goods from the coarsest sailcloth to a hand- 

 kerchief of marvellously fine cambric, and displayed on the space 

 between were specimens showing every successive process, illus- 

 trated also by some of the machinery by means of which the 

 process is carried out. The exhibition was a highly effective 

 one, and was a source of much interest during the evening. 

 The President of the Club contributed a series of early book- 

 plates, and also a series of modern ones of his own design, many 

 of the latter being familiar to readers not only in Belfast, but in 

 many places both at home and abroad. Hanging on the walls 

 opposite to the photographic exhibition were two fine series of 

 dried plants, one of flowering plants, the other of cryptogams, 

 being portions of the prize collections of Mr. W. D. Donnan. 

 The other prize collections on exhibition were Palaeozoic fossils 

 and Cretaceous fossils, by Miss Sydney M. Thompson ; archaeo- 

 logical photographs, by Miss A. H. Tate ; beetles, by Rev. S. 

 A. Brenan, B.A. ; and a series of microscopic slides, showing 

 great excellence of manipulation, by Mr. Wm. Hanna, B.A. 

 Mr. John H. Davies exhibited specimens of a rare moth, 

 Nonagria typhce y which he had recently obtained in the neigh- 



