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labour of preparing the MS. for the Press from the 

 material supplied by his colleagues and himself fell 

 entirely on him. He died within a week of the com- 

 pletion of the task. 



I may say, in passing, that in the preparation of 

 the new edition of the ''Flora," which the Club is 

 issuing under the general editorship of Dr. Praeger, 

 invaluable assistance is being given by Mr. Megaw, 

 who has undertaken the Section dealing with mosses 

 and hepatics, and by Miss Sayers, who has been inde- 

 fatigable in the laborious work of checking habitats. 



Thomas Edens Osborne, gramophone merchant, 

 was Treasurer from 1921-2 till 1923-4. Many of us 

 have pleasant memories of Tom Osborne, "a fellow of 

 infinite jest." His quips and puns still linger in our 

 memories. 



>V 



In 1874, on the occasion of the meeting of the 

 British Association in Belfast, the Club issued a 

 "Guide to Belfast and the Adjacent Counties," I think 

 I am correct in stating that it was the first time 

 a town had provided a book of this kind as part of its 

 scheme of hospitality for members of the Association. 

 An admirable little book it was, full of useful topo- 

 graphical and scientific information and tastefully 

 printed and bound by Marcus Ward & Co. It was 

 written by the following members of the Club — John 

 Anderson, William Gray, Rev. Edmund M'Clure, Rev. 

 William MTlwaine, Rev. George Robinson, Hugh 

 Robinson, S. A. Stewart, and William Swanston. 



In 1902, when the British Association again met 

 in Belfast, the Club again produced a "Guide" for its 

 use. 



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In 1913 the Club made a brief incursion into the 

 field of journalism with the "B.N.F.C. Quarterly 

 Journal," devoted to the furtherance of the open-air 

 study of natural history in the north-east of Ireland. 

 The first four numbers (January to October, 1913) 

 were edited by Arthur Stelfox, and the next four 

 (January to October, 1914) by the Committee of the 

 Junior Section of the Club. Publication was not 

 continued. 



Mention of the Junior Section reminds me that the 

 credit for its inception is due to Mr. Stendall. Within 



