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tant amalgamation was made, and the Natural History Society 

 and the Field Club held their meetings in common, these 

 meetings being called by a joint circular. For some time this 

 arrangement worked smoothly, but it gradually became 

 evident that there was an under-current of dissatisfaction, 

 and in 1871-2 the separate relations were again resumed, and 

 perhaps wisely. Since then both societies have worked har- 

 moniously side by side, and there is still plenty of work for 

 each to do. 



During this year (1869-70) a lecture was given that is 

 well worth recording, namely, " On the Continuity of the 

 Liquid and Gaseous States of Matter," by Dr. Andrews, 

 F.R.S. Dr. Andrews was a gifted pioneer in this subject, 

 and our reverence for him and his work is deep and profound. 

 This was in 1870, Now mark: in 1902 — thirty-two years 

 after — ■" The Liquefication of Gases and the Continuity of 

 State '" was the subject of the inaugural address to the 

 British Association in Dr. Andrews' own city of Belfast, by 

 Professor James Dewar, the then President of the British 

 Association. Could any praise be greater than that ? i 

 cannot pass by the name of Andrews without notice of how 

 much the Club owes to the work of his daughter. Miss Mary 

 K. Andrews, as an accomplished geologist. The Club's builders 

 were not all men. 



In 1886 the Club published in a collected form in one 

 volume, the Appendices to the Reports, and as it represents 

 so much and valuable labour on the part of the Club's builders 

 I may be pardoned for reading a portion of the list. 



Appendix I. — A list of the Irish Liassic Fossils, with notes 

 on the new and critical species, by Ralph 

 Tate, Assoc. Lin. Soc, F.G.S., &c. Plate I. 



„ 11. — A list of the Irish Liassic Foraminifera, by 



Joseph Wright, F.G.S., F.R.G.S.I. 



„ III. — A list of the Fossils of the Estuarine Clays 

 of the Counties of Down and Antrim, by 

 Samuel Alex. Stewart, F.B.S.Edin. 



