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The resolution was passed enthusiastically. 



The lecturer, in replying, said it was a great pleasure to 

 him, as a wanderer everywhere, to come back, so to speak, 

 home again and see the faces of old fellow-students, and he 

 believed the face of his old schoolmaster. He had thrown out 

 those suggestions as the sort of thing that the Field Club 

 might take up. Botanists, he thought, were not doing the 

 study of trees justice. Every dandelion elucidated for itself 

 an amount of enthusiasm which was astonishing. If he tried 

 to inquire what was the species of oak which was native to 

 the country, what was their distribution, he got practically 

 no answer to the question, and geologists gave him very little 

 information as to ancient forests. Dealing with the question 

 as to peat bogs, the lecturer instanced the Sitka spruce and 

 other trees, in the planting of which successful experiments 

 had been made. 



The President mentioned that a new Field Club had 

 been started in Tyrone, and was sure the members of the 

 Belfast Field Club would do all in their power to further the 

 success of the new organisation. He ^Iso had to report that 

 Mr. A. R. Hogg had presented to the Club a large flash-light 

 photograph showing the roof of one of the Carrickfergus Salt 

 Mines with the men at work in one of the upper galleries, 

 and on behalf of the Club he thanked Mr. Hogg for this gift, 

 which now adorns the wall of the Club-room. 



The election of Miss M. Sinclair, Messrs. Arthur Deane, 

 John M'Dowell, W. H. Robinson, Stewart Faussett, and James 

 M'Whirter to membership brought the proceedings to a close. 



" MARINE SHELLS OF OUR DISTRICT." 



The usual weekly meeting of the Club was held in the 

 Club-room, Museum, on 22nd March — the President (Mr. W. 

 J. Fennell, M.R.I.A.) in the chair. Mr. George Donaldson 

 read a paper on the " Marine Shells of our District." He 

 began by remarking how little progress we are making in our 

 study of marine zoology since the days of Thompson, 



