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series by R. Welch, and a comprehensive set of ethnographical 

 views illustrating some of the manners and customs of the 

 inhabitants of Ireland. There was also a series of Bangor 

 yachting views, showing the Britannia and other yachts, 

 exhibited by James A. Pollock. John Vinycomb, M.RJ.A., 

 exhibited a series of Ex Librz's, a subject upon which he is now 

 accepted as an authority, whilst Ernest Hanford displayed a 

 representative series of water colours, illustrating the favourite 

 district of Cushendall. John Hamilton excited much interest 

 with the objects in his aquaria. Fitty rare Irish plants collected 

 during the past season, for which a special Club prize had been 

 awarded, were exhibited by R. Lloyd Praeger, M.R.I.A., of 

 Dublin, who was present, and gladly welcomed by his old 

 friends and fellow- workers. Stereoscopic views were shown by 

 Dr. Cecil Shaw, and under the guidance of Dr. St. Clair Boyd 

 there was a display of microscopes by the members of the Club. 

 Mrs. Allan, of Stormount Castle, exhibited a huge tarpon, 

 whose silvery scales attracted much admiration. Mrs. White- 

 Spunner had on view her album of Irish flowering plants, 

 which was shown at the Chicago Exhibition. One of the 

 pleasantest and certainly the most amusing feature of the 

 evening was the series of photos., illustrating in a comic and 

 whimsical fashion the manners and customs of prehistoric man. 

 These views, clever in themselves, were rendered more attractive 

 by the descriptions of William Gray, who, in his entertaining 

 manner, kept the audience in fun for fully half an hour. A 

 series of sea-gull photos, were then shown and some Club 

 excursion views, taken by Welch, Gray, Leslie, and MacLean. 

 After the lantern a short business meeting was held, when the 

 following twenty-one new members were elected, bringing up 

 the total membership to about 500, the largest ever reached in 

 the history of the Club : — David Strain, Miss M. J. Hanna, 

 Joseph H. Vint, David M'Mordie, John M. M'Alery, Robert 

 Davison, Miss Alice J. Bell, William Hazelton, Clement C. 

 Ewart, Ernest Ewart, J. Workman, J. C. Robertson, F. Howard 

 Sinclair, M.D., Mrs. Annie Cleland, Rev. William Colquhoun, 



