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6th January, 1885. 



Professor Everett in the Chair. 



James Musgrave, Esq., gave an account of 



A RECENT VISIT TO AMERICA, 



Including the Yellowstone Park and the Colorado, illustrated 

 by Photographs. 



Mr. Musgrave said, on the 7th August last he left Liverpool 

 with one of his brothers, for New York, in the Germanic, one 

 of the finest of that White Star line of steamers of which the 

 people of Belfast had reason to feel proud. His object in pro- 

 ceeding to America was two-fold ; first, to attend the meeting 

 of the British Association at Montreal, which would give him 

 an opportunity of gaining some knowledge of the Dominion of 

 Canada ; and, second, to visit, amongst other places, the scenery 

 which the writings of Washington Irving and Fenimore Cooper 

 had invested with the true spirit of romance, and to observe for 

 himself, even superficially, the people and the institutions of 

 that wonderful country. 



Mr. Musgrave then described a visit to the Yellowstone Park, 

 which a few years ago was set apart by Act of Congress as a 

 national park for the American people. Mr. Rigg, president of 

 the London Association of Engineers, had joined in the trip. 

 A circular tour was arranged with the Northern Pacific, the 

 Union Pacific, the Chicago and Alton, and the Baltimore and 

 Ohio Railways, a tour which, with an extension into the 

 Denver and Rio line, he could recommend to any one desirous 

 of seeing that country. He wished to thank Mr. Mackenzie, of 

 the Baltimore and Ohio in Philadelphia, and Mr, Macdougal, 



