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The excursion programme was fully carried out, the following 

 being the places visited during the Summer Session : — 



Castle Upton (Half-Day) ... ... 20th May. 



Torrent River Valley, Coalisland ... 3rd June. 



Ardglass (Half- Day) ... ... ... 17th June. 



Broadstone ... ... ... ... 1st July. 



Pot of Legawherry ... ... ... 15th July. 



Greyabbey (Half-Day) ... ... ... 29th July. 



Gobbins (Half- Day) ... ... ... 19th Aug. 



Antrim (Half- Day) ... ... 2nd Sept. 



At these excursions the average attendance of members and 

 friends was 61 — a gratifying increase — last year's average having 

 been 37. 



The Winter Session opened with a Conversazione held in the 

 Carlton Hall on 24th October, at which about 250 members and 

 friends were present. During the Session the following Papers 

 (of which abstracts will be found in the Proceedings) were read: — 



1916. 



2 1 st November — "The Roman Engineer: 50 B.C. — 200 A. D.," Mr. A. M'l. 

 Cleland. 



19th December— " The Childhood of Art," Mr. Arthur Deane. 



1917. 

 16th January— "The Mourne Mountains," Mr. N. II. Foster, F.L.S., M.R.I. A. 



20th February — "The Churches of Raholp and Ardtole in the Lecale of 

 Down," Mr. F. J. Bigger, M.R.I. A. 



20th March— " The Applications of Geology to the Development of Mineral 

 Resources," Mr. W. B. Wright, B.A., F.G.S., Delegate 

 from the Irish Field Club Union. 



A sub-committee was appointed to consider the advisability 

 of publishing a supplement to the " Flora of the North-East," 

 incorporating the recent researches* by members, among our local 

 plants. This sub-committee recommended that a short abstract 

 should be published as an Appendix to the Club's Proceedings in 



