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and Antrim," and also " The Mollusca of the Boulder-Clay of the 

 North-East of Ireland." Both these scholarly contributions to the 

 literature on our ancient fauna are published in our first volume 

 of Appendices.* 



Taylor, in his monograph of " The Land and Fresh-water 

 Mollusca of the British Isles," has many local records from 

 material sent him by Stewart, and I have no doubt that he helped 

 many other similar workers also, who required information on 

 Irish zoological matters. 



So far as our own Club is concerned he had its interests 

 keenly at heart to the last, and I am sure many here to-night will 

 join with me in grateful acknowledgment of help and sympathy 

 cheerfully rendered in our scientific pursuits by our late friend 

 and fellow-member. 



Mr. George Donaldson said — On the establishment of the 

 Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on 

 Education, classes were formed in Belfast, under the late Prof. R. 

 Tate, in which Mr. Stewart was one of the first pupils. At 

 the first examination, held in May, 1862, he passed 1st Class in 

 Geology and 1st Class in Mineralogy, and obtained the Bronze 

 Medal of the Department in these subjects. In that year the 

 Belfast students obtained five out of the six medals awarded by 

 the Department for the United Kingdom. 



The next year, the subjects taken in the classes were 

 Vegetable Physiology, Economic and Systematic Botany, and at 

 the examination, held in May, 1863, he again obtained a double 

 first place, 1st Class in Vegetable Physiology, and Economic 

 Botany, 1st Class in Systematic Botany, and in honours the Silver 

 Medal of the I )epartment. 



*Systema*tic Lists of the Flora. Fauna, Palaeontology and Archaeology of 

 the North of Ireland, by Members of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. 

 Vol. I. 



