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ANNUAL MEETING. 



The thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Club was held in the 

 Belfast Museum on Wednesday evening, April 27th, the 

 President in the chair. 



The Chairman read a letter of apology for non-attendance 

 from the senior secretary (Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger) who was 

 absent in London, and called on the junior secretary (Mr. 

 Francis Joseph Bigger) to read the Annual Report. This, 

 together with the statement of accounts, which was next sub- 

 mitted by the treasurer (Mr. W. H. Phillips), will be found in 

 the earlier pages of the present part of the Proceedings of the 

 Club. 



On the motion of Mr. W. H. Patterson, M.R.I.A., seconded 

 by Mr. F. A. Porter, the report was adopted ; and the state- 

 ment of accounts was adopted on the motion of Mr. Joseph 

 Wright, F.G.S., seconded by Mr. Hugh Allen. 



The President (Mr. John Vinycomb, M.R LA.) next moved 

 that Mr. William Swanston, F.G.S., should be elected President 

 for the coming year. He referred in suitable terms to Mr. 

 Swanston's long official connection with the Club, and to the 

 prosperous condition that the Society maintained during his 

 fifteen years secretaryship. The motion was seconded by Mr. 

 J. J. Andrew, L.D.S., and carried unanimously. 



Mr. F. W. Lockwood, C.E., was elected Vice-President, on 

 the motion of Mr. John Vinycomb, M.R.I.A., seconded by Mr. 

 W. D. Donnan. 



The Secretaries were re-elected on the motion of Mr. John 

 Vinycomb, M.R.I.A., seconded by Mr. W. Gray, M.R.I.A. ; 

 and the Treasurer on the motion of Mr. W. S. M'Kee, seconded 

 by Dr. St. Clair Boyd. Two vacancies occurred on the Com- 

 mittee, which were filled by Mr. John Vinycomb, M.R.I.A., 

 and Mr. L. M. Ewart, J.P., M.R.I.A., and the Committee as 

 thus constituted were elected on the motion of Mr. W. H. 

 Phillips, F.R.H.S., seconded by Mr. J. O. Campbell. 



The Ex-President moved, and Mr. R. Welch seconded, a 



