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Andrews; educational models and diagrams, models of kist- 

 vaens, stone circles, etc., Mr. Wm. Gray, M.R.I. A. ; measured 

 drawings of souterrains, model of a souterrain, Mrs. Hobson ; a 

 series of twenty-two water-colour sketches of Belfast Lough, 

 Sligo district, and Achill Island (this exhibit attracted much 

 attention, and its artistic merits were favourably commented 

 upon), Fraulein Magnussen; old spears, pikes, and other wea- 

 pons, Mr. W. F. M'Kinney ; mineral block from Greenland, old 

 Dutch lamps and tinderboxes, some types of primitive Ulster 

 candlesticks, old leather-covered water-jug, bronze cooking 

 vessel, Mr. Robert May; specimens of work from Ballycastle 

 toy industry, Mrs. Riddel; sprays of ivy, holly, and rose, 

 electro-plated, Mr. D. Steel; natural history photographs, 

 Mr. R. Welch; new drift survey map of Belfast and district 

 and accompanying illustrated memoir, book stall, at which 

 could be obtained the Club's " Guide to Antrim and Down" 

 (1902), the proceedings, reports, appendices, reprints, and 

 the Sligo Conference number of the Irish Naturalist, &c., 

 the Librarian (Mr. George Donaldson). 



At half-past eight o'clock a short business meeting was 

 held, the President (Mr. W. J. Fennell, M.R.I.A.I.) in the 

 chair. In the course of his remarks the President said — 

 Another summer had passed away, and now once again it 

 became his pleasant duty to welcome them all to the inaugural 

 meeting of their winter session, which promised to be a busy 

 and a useful one. He thought they might congratulate them- 

 selves on having had a Summer Session productive of much 

 good work in the field, with results that in due course would 

 take their places in the permanent records of their work. 

 Many might think such " records," " proceedings," or " re- 

 ports," as they were variously called, were not of great conse- 

 quence, but at the meeting of the British Association at Cam- 

 bridge this year he was much struck at finding they were 

 held in high estimation and sought after as works of reference. 

 (Hear, hear.) He also thought that their Club might congratu- 

 late itself on the fact that two of their members had received 

 special honours for their labours. One, their veteran botanist, 



