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and S. A. Stewart. They had a visit during the year from one 

 of the original members, Professor Tate, and he had been 

 delighted to see so many of his old friends, and to hear of the 

 continued prosperity of the Club. At the end of the first decade, 

 in 1874, the membership was 227. In that year the guide had 

 been published for the British Association, and they would agree 

 with him that a new one should be issued. The guide has been 

 very valuable indeed. At the end of the second decade the 

 membership was 280, and towards the end of the third (in 1891) 

 R. LI. Praeger and F. J. Bigger had been elected hon. secretaries, 

 and the Club had 280 members. Since that time the member- 

 ship had increased very rapidly, until in 1893 it stood at 400, 

 and in 1895 at 500. It was then felt that the Club was 

 sufficiently large to be easily worked, and a small entrance fee 

 was charged. By the systematic removal of the names of 

 defaulters, the membership now stood at a little below 500, and 

 the Committee considered it wise not to have too cumbrous a 

 society. The last report was now in the members' hands, and 

 it contained the usual reports, and also a valuable bibliography 

 on Irish glacial geology by R. LI. Praeger. Their joint excursion 

 with the Dublin Club to Cavan in July had been most successful, 

 and strengthened the alliance between the Dublin and Belfast 

 clubs, ihe proposed long excursion to Ballycastle and the 

 Giant's Causeway next year, with an invitation to the Dublin 

 Club to join them, would further strengthen the relations 

 between the clubs. At the conversazione that union was 

 strongly marked by the presence and help of their Dublin 

 neighbours, and last week several of their members visited 

 Dublin. The sections of the Club were doing very valuable 

 work — the geological under Miss S. M. Thompson, and the 

 botanical under the Rev. C. H. Waddell, whose popular 

 leadership was very beneficial. He would ask those who took 

 an interest in natural science to support the official organ of 

 the Club, the Irish Naturalist, edited by R. LI. Praeger ; and 

 those interested in antiquarian matters should subscribe for the 

 Ulster Journal of Archceology^ edited by F. J. Bigger. It 



