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of Ireland. The resources at the command of our Feld Club 

 would enable us to render valuable services in the promotion 

 of original investigations apart from our ordinary work, pro- 

 vided thnt the individual or society requiring such services 

 would furnish clear and specific instructions as to the character 

 of their requhements and the form in which they should be 

 presented. In reference to the known requirements of the 

 British Association, it is to be hoped the members of the Bel- 

 fast Naturalists' Field Club may be enabled to collect materials 

 sufficient to make a very creditable display during the coming 

 Belfast meeting of the Association, and thus maintain the 

 reputation they established by what they accomplished during 

 the meeting of 1874, when they published a local guide, and 

 formed an excellent exhibition of Irish antiquities. 



Mr. Fennell submitted some notes on the work done by the 

 British Association, and placed on the screen some views of 

 Bradford, and called attention to the Technical School — its 

 cost and equipment — as forming a favourable model for the 

 Belfast Institution in many ways." He proceeded to describe the 

 arrangements made for the excursions, and then conducted the 

 club (in imagination") to Bolton Abbey, the Strid, and " the 

 good old city of York." The history of Bolton Abbey was 

 touched on^ and the chief points of interest were brought out, 

 and a large number of pictures of the half ruined church were 

 shown, all from photographs taken by himself and Mr. W. 

 Grav. The chief interest, however, centred in the visit to 

 York, which was described as "full of old things — quaint, real 

 old-time things, old houses still preserved for their oldness— - 

 old but not aged or decrepit ; old gates, old churches, old shops, 

 and even old furniture — a real mediaeval spot preserved in the 

 midst of this busy work-a-dav world, so that one could wish for 

 time to search out every nook and cranny in it." The visit to 

 St. Mary's Abbey was described, and also the Hospitium of St. 

 Leonards, the museums, city walls, the Old Guild Hall, the 

 civic treasures, and, lastly, the great glory of York — the stately 

 Minster, with its visible records of every period of English art, 



