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Sand of Eigg ; ' and Mr. Seaton F. Milligan, M.R.I.A., read 

 papers entitled ' With the Royal Historical and Archaeological 

 Society in Limerick,' ' Recent Archaeological Explorations, with 

 Special Reference to the Ancient Irish Hot Air Bath,' and 

 ' Notes on a Carved Oak Tudor Panel,' illustrated by special 

 photo slides, &c. The third meeting was held on 4th January ^ 

 1890, when two papers were read — on 'The Proposed Verte- 

 brate Fauna of Ulster,' by Messrs. Robert Patterson and R. 

 Lloyd Praeger, B.E., secretaries of the Ulster Fauna Committee, 

 illustrated by rare specimens, and on ' Modern Photography,' 

 by Dr. Cecil Shaw, M.A., illustrated by a large number of 

 lantern pictures. The fourth meeting, an extra one, was held 

 on the 1 6th January, 1890, when Mr. John Brown read a paper 

 entitled ' Thoughts on Education and Schools.' The fifth 

 meeting was held on the 4th February, 1890, at which a dis- 

 cussion took place on the ' Science and Practice of Sanitation,' 

 opened by Professor Letts, Ph.D., who was followed by Messrs. 

 Calwell, M.D.; Richard Patterson, J.P.; J. C. Bretland, 

 M. Inst. C.E., City Surveyor ; Conway Scott, C.E.; S. F. 

 Milligan, M.R.I.A.; John Brown, John Lanyon, C.E.; J. Maxton, 

 and William Gray, M.R.I.A. The sixth meeting was held on 

 the 4th March, 1890, when three papers were read — Professor 

 Fitzgerald, B.A., on the 'Theory of the Screw Propeller;' 

 Mr. Robert Young, B.E., ' Some Notes on the Upper Boulder 

 Clay near Belfast ; ' and Mr. H. Pearce, ' Notes on a Collection 

 of British Butterflies presented to the Museum by the Reader,' 

 illustrated by lantern slides. The seventh meeting was held on 

 1st April, 1890, when Mr. James Maxton read a paper on 'A 

 Proposed Submerged Bridge between Ireland and Scotland,' 

 illustrated by lime light views, diagrams, and models ; after 

 which the adjourned discussion on Professor Fitzgerald's 

 ' Theory of the Screw Propeller ' took place. 



" In addition to the foregoing ordinary meetings, your 

 Council, as usual, made arrangements for a series of popular 

 scientific lectures. Two of them were given on the 30th and 

 31st October, 1889, in St. George's Hall, by Professor Douglas 



