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tion received is classified, indexed, and made easily 

 accessible to members and others; and, in time, it 

 should form a valuable record. 



More than sixty years ago, it is interesting- to 

 note, the Club encouraged research of a similar kind. 

 In 1870, the prehistoric remains at Moyaver, near 

 Armoy, were reported on by a Committee of the Club, 

 and the "plan" which this Committee prepared (see 

 the reproduction in the Proceedings) will compare 

 favourably with similar productions of to-day. And 

 in this same year (1870) the Club began a pictorial 

 record of our prehistoric and later antiquities. The 

 Committee recommended that members and friends of 

 the Club should embrace every opportunity to multiply 

 records of this description— photographs and drawings, 

 to be permanently preserved in the Club's Portfolio. 

 We find frequent mention of this Portfolio sub- 

 sequently. What has become of it? 



In 1903, when the Ulster Fisheries and Biological 

 Association was established for the study of marine 

 zoology, several of our members took an active part in 

 its researches, notably Dr. Gregg Wilson, William 

 Swanston and W. H. Gallway. 



The institution of a Medal, suggested by Mr. 

 Stendall in his Presidential Address in 1923, was a 

 notable event in the annals of the Club. It is awarded 

 from time to time "for work in Ireland in connection 

 with the Club's activities." For so far the Club 

 Medallists have been twelve in number: — 



1923 — William Swanston. 



1924 — Nevin H. Poster. 



1925— Nathaniel Carrothers. 



1926— Robert Bell. 



1927— R. L. Praeger. 



1928— Robert J. Welch. 



1931— S. A. Bennett. 



1932— J. A. S. Stendall. 



1933— A. M'L Cleland. 



1934— Dr. Gregg Wilson. 



1936— Prof. Charlesworth. 



1937— Rev. W. R. Megaw. 



— a dozen men who were, surely, well worthy of the 

 highest honour the Club could bestow on them. Alas! 

 six of them have already been taken from us. 



In 1923, the Route Naturalists' Field Club was 



established, largely through the instrumentality of the 

 Hon. Helen Macnaughten and the Rev. E. M. Gumley, 

 at that time Rector of Ballintoy. Subsequently Clubs 



