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but £ 7, whether we win or lose we — that is to say, the Causeway 

 defence committee — will have to pay our own costs. Our 

 solicitors, Greer and Hamilton, of Ballymoney, estimate that 

 the costs may amount to ^"400, and this sum at least we must 

 raise. We ask for help in the matter of collecting subscriptions, 

 and collecting lists will be supplied to all who will take them. 

 We earnestly ask all those who value liberty to take lists, and 

 get their friends to take them, so that practical interest may be 

 aroused on all sides in asserting the independence of the public. 

 Large subscriptions, as a rule, are not asked for, but small sums 

 given by the many, for it is a matter which concerns the many. 

 Evidence is also wanted from those who have known of the 

 Causeway as a public resort for forty or fifty years or more. I 

 shall not occupy your time longer, but direct your attention to 

 the different exhibits mentioned in the programme. 



The remainder of the evening passed quickly over, the large 

 number of people fully occupying their time in examining the 

 different exhibits and in listening to the numerous gentlemen 

 describing and explaining the objects which crowded the tables 

 occupying the floor of the hall. 



ij November, i8g^. 



At the opening meeting of the winter session Lavens M. 

 Ewart (President), occupied the chair, and there was a crowded 

 attendance. 



The President said they were met that night to inaugurate 

 the winter session after a very enjoyable and instructive summer 

 session. The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club was now in its 

 thirty-fifth year of existence. The first year's membership was 

 102, of whom only about twelve remained to the present as 

 members, the balance having died, left the country, or resigned. 

 However, those who remained continued to take an active 

 interest in the Club, amongst them being W. H. Patterson, W. 

 Gray, the lecturer of that evening, the Treasurer, W. H. Phillips, 



