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Gray's first report to the Club as its first representative to 

 the British Association meeting at Bradford that year, and 

 he has been our representative on many subsequent occasions. 



The minutes detail the labours of the Club on 

 the Guide Book, and we might mention that it cost 

 £156. lis. Id., and that the assets in connection with it were 

 £158. 15s. lid. Of course the Local Committee of the 

 British Association contributed to the cost of the work. 



Not only did the Club produce a Guide Book, but it 

 undertook to form an exhibition of antiquities, for which the 

 Local Committee of the British Association subscribed £100. 

 This was successfully organised, not without much labour, 

 and opened from the 20th to the 26th August in the Ulster 

 Minor Hall. 



The minute book records the Herculean efforts of our 

 Club members to render the British Association visit a success. 

 That visit was rendered famous by its addresses and will ever 

 be a red-letter one ; but after all the Club did and the pains 

 it took, and the concise minutes of the Committee on the 

 subject; with the exception of a reference to it in Canon 

 Macllwaine's opening address of the Winter Session, the 

 minutes are absolutely silent on the actual visit and the part 

 the members took in it. Mr. Wm. Gray was Secretary then; 

 he may possibly explain why he did not write up the minutes. 



At the General Meeting on the 28th April, 1875, Mr. 

 Gray was elected Vice-President, and I find that it was 

 reported in the papers that Mr. Joseph Wright said on that 

 night: "I think it is well that we should take a glance back 

 and note the part taken by Mr. Gray in the working of the 

 Club since its formation, when it was comparatively weak, 

 until the present time, when it opens its present year a strong, 

 flourishing society, with an established and creditable reputa- 

 tion amongst naturalists, not only in this country, but even 

 beyond the boundaries of the United Kingdom." Mr. Wright 

 also said that " the exhibition of antiquities in the Ulster 

 Minor Hall and the preparation of the Guide to Belfast and 

 adjacent Counties constituted the most important scientific 



