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call the new historical method. The older school of historians 

 had been content to base their narratives on the literary records 

 of the past. But the newer school, while not neglecting these, 

 drew upon two additional sources of information. Firstly they 

 went to the State papers, and other first-hand documents. It 

 was plain from his lecture that Mr. Green had made abundant 

 use of these — not only of the English State papers bearing on 

 the Elizabethan period, buc of those belonging to foreign 

 countries. Secondly, the new school of historians, headed in 

 this respect by J. R. Green, called topography into their 

 service, and were not content without surveying, as far as 

 possible, the actual localities of the events which they described. 

 The value of this method had been illustrated in the clearest 

 possible way by the lecture that evening. Mr. Spotswood 

 Green had gone carefully over all the localities associated with 

 the wrecks of the Armada, and had used his camera to the best 

 advantage. He had thus been able to fill in with vivid detail 

 the narrative of events which they all knew in outline, and no 

 one could come away from the lecture without a heightened 

 historical sense, and a fuller grasp than before of the tragic 

 story of the Armada. 



Professor Fitzgerald seconded the motion, which was heartily 

 carried, conveyed by the President, and suitably acknowledged 

 by the reader of the paper. 



Note on some Effects of the Cyclone of February, 

 27th, by R. Welch. 



Photographs illustrating the effects of the cyclcne of February 

 27th, at the Eastern intake at Limavady Junction were shown 

 by Mr. R. Welch. The intake was flooded to the depth of eight 

 feet in some places as the result of the embankment giving 

 way, the railway line being submerged also three feet at each 

 high tide. 



