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The third meeting was held on January 8th, 1889, at which 

 Rev. A. Gordon, M.A., read a paper, entitled ' Notes of Spanish 

 Travel, 1888.' The fourth meeting was held on February 5th, 

 1889 ; Mr. Thomas Workman, J.P., gave a paper— subject, .' A 

 Visit to Singapore,' with limelight photographic illustrations ; 

 and Dr. John Moran read a short description of the finding, by 

 himself, of a mammoth's tooth in the drift gravels at Larne. 

 The fifth meeting, an extra one, was held on February 26th, 

 when Dr. John MacCormac gave a lecture on ' Man's Food and 

 Dietetics,' followed by a short communication from Mr. Robert 

 Young, C.E., on ' A Recent Section of the Upper Boulder Clay 

 at Greencastle Waterworks,' with specimens. The sixth meet- 

 ing was held on March 5th, when Mr. Seaton F. Milligan, 

 M.R.I.A., read a paper on 'The Sepulchral Structures and Burial 

 Customs of Ancient Ireland,' illustrated by special photographic 

 lantern views. The ^seventh meeting, also an extra one, was 

 held on March 19th, when three subjects were brought forward 

 — Mr. Allan P. Swan read a paper on 'The Fungus of the 

 Salmon Disease : its Life and Function,' with microscopic 

 lantern illustrations ; Mr. John Brown gave an account of 

 ' Figures Produced by Electric Discharges on Photographic 

 Plates ; ' and Messrs. John Brown and William Gray exhibited 

 and described the optimus optical lantern, Leache's oxyhydrogen 

 microscope, and an aphengescope. The eighth and concluding 

 meeting was held on April 2nd, when Professor Meissner read a 

 paper — subject, ' Christian Antiquities and Works of Art of the 

 Lower Rhine,' illustrated by drawings, &c. 



" In addition to the ordinary meetings, your Council made 

 arrangements to continue the customary special series of Popular 

 Scientific Lectures, of which three were given. The efforts of 

 the Society in connection with these lectures have been fully 

 appreciated by the members and the general public, as shown by 

 the large attendances. The first of the series was held on No- 

 vember 28th, 1888, in the Ulster Minor Hall, when your Presi- 

 dent kindly gave a lecture on ' Alchemy and Alchemists.' The 

 second of these meetings was held on January 17th, i889,.when 



