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a year of his election to membership — to be precise, at 

 the Annual Meeting on 28th April, 1911 — he brought 

 forward a scheme for encouraging and training boys 

 and girls interested in natural history, and, in spite of 

 considerable opposition he carried his project to a 

 successful issue. Entirely on Mr. Stendall's initiative, 

 the Junior Section was established on 16th June, 1911. 

 He acted as its Secretary for a year or two, to give it a 

 good start, and since then it has grown enormously in 

 usefulness as well as in numbers. In this connection 

 Mr. Stendall did a good day's work for the Club. 



In 1895, a magazine on a wider basis than the 

 "B.N.F.C. Quarterly Journal" was established at the 

 suggestion and under the auspices of the Club — "The 

 Irish Naturalists' Journal." It was meant to take the 

 place of "The Irish Naturalist," then lately defunct, but 

 it has developed into something much more important 

 than that little magazine. It began as the official 

 organ of the Club and four other scientific societies ; it 

 now represents fourteen. Mr. Stendall has been Editor- 

 in-chief from the start, and he is ably assisted by a 

 staff of capable Sectional Editors. 



Every member of the Club should be a subscriber. 



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One of the most important pieces of work under- 

 taken by the Club was the examination, in 1889, by a 

 Committee which it appointed, of the 25-feet Raised 

 Beach at Larne, where the earliest worked flints of 

 Ireland have been found. The results of the investiga- 

 tion of the relation between the distribution of the 

 flints and the stratification of the gravels will be found 

 in an exhaustive Report in the Proceedings for 1889- 

 90 ; and the whole story of the Larne gravels, told by 

 W. J. Knowles, of Ballymena, in an admirable article 

 in the "Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society" 

 for January, 1914, was afterward reprinted in pam- 

 phlet form under the title of "The Antiquity of Man 

 in Ireland." 



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In 1931, the Club appointed a Survey of 

 Antiquities Committee, with Miss Gaffikin as Secretary, 

 to collect all available information, topographical and 

 bibliographical, regarding the antiquities of Northern 

 Ireland. This work is being carried on ; the informa- 



