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place which he (Dr. M'Weeney) occupied. At the same time, 

 he was much pleased to be able to take a part in the proceedings 

 on this interesting occasion. He sympathised with the Belfast 

 Club on the loss which they had sustained, and congratulated 

 the Dublin Club on their corresponding gain. The Chairman's 

 remarks were ably endorsed on behalf of the Belfast Club by 

 Wm. Gray, M.R.I.A., past President. The address having 

 been read by Francis Joseph Bigger, Hon. Secretary, the Chair- 

 man presented the album amid applause. 



Mr. Praeger, in acknowledging the presentation, said he 

 found it the more difficult to reply because he felt that such 

 high compliments should be reserved for those who had rendered 

 distinguished service to the Club, and he was aware how little he 

 had done to merit the honour that had just been bestowed upon 

 him ; but he thanked the Club for their valuable gift, and more 

 still for the kind words and friendly wishes that accompanied 

 it. This album would ever recall the many pleasant days that 

 they had spent together by field and valley and mountain, or 

 in scientific intercourse and discussion. Although he could no 

 longer be a regular attendant at their meetings and excursions, 

 his interest in the welfare of the Club to which he owed so 

 much would suffer no diminution, and he ventured to hope 

 that his change of residence would add another link to the 

 chain of friendliness and goodwill that already bound together 

 the Field Clubs of Belfast and Dublin. 



The corridors of the Victoria Hotel next morning early 

 resounded with the secretary's whistle to prepare for an early 

 start. At nine o'clock the waggonettes drove away through 

 the High Street, past the graceful spire of St. Mary's, and the 

 new granite tower on the Roman Catholic Church, which 

 surpasses in gracefulness of outline any other tower in 

 the North of Ireland, along the road by the side of 

 the canal to Omeath, stopping here and there to allow the 

 naturalists time to make different forays into the fields or down 

 to the canal banks, and allowing the geologists to select 

 samples of the red porphyritic granite in a quarry by 



