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usual cover-glass, Davies leisurely produced a silk pocket- 

 handkerchief and, before the horrified eyes of the owner, 

 in a moment ground the specimen to powder! — But Wright's 

 self-restraint stood even that test. He gasped, and his face 

 went white; but he uttered no word of reproach. 'It couldn't 

 be helped' — and that was an end of it." 



Hugh Lamont Orr, father of our esteemed fellow- 

 member, James Orr, was a fine all-round naturalist, 

 with a special interest in hymenoptera. He was one of 

 the most active workers in the Club, and for many 

 years a useful and popular member of Committee. He 

 devoted considerable attention to conchology and 

 entomology, and for some years before his death, in 

 1913, he was engaged on a List of the Wild Bees and 

 Wasps of the North-East of Ireland. He was an expert 

 in the mounting of specimens, and was always ready to 

 give advice and practical assistance to young 

 naturalists. 



Robert Bell joined the Club in 1893. He died on 

 12th April, 1934. During those forty years he did more 

 than any other man of his time for the advancement of 

 scientific and archaeological knowledge in the North of 

 Ireland. First and foremost, he was a geologist, but he 

 was also a keen archaeologist. At a Club meeting in 

 1921, he mentioned some of his geological discoveries. 

 He said that in 1902 he found in Sluggan Bog a jelly- 

 like mass which puzzled him. It turned out to be 

 "dopplerite," a mineral new to the British Isles. In 

 1908 he found "beekite" on certain fossils from the 

 Chloritic Sands of the Upper Cretaceous. In 1919 ho 

 found at Cat-cairn, Ligoniel, a mineral new to Ireland, 

 a zeolite named "gyrolite." Another mineral, new to 

 Ireland, which he found in the basalt of Killyleagh, 

 was "phacolite." In July, 1921, he discovered in the 

 lignite deposits of Lough Neagh a trunk of lignite 

 partly silicified, which he considered proof that the 

 silicified wood found round Lough Neagh came from 

 the lignite beds. In archaeology he had accumulated a 

 magnificent collection of flint implements. He was a 

 great favourite of his fellow-members. His innate 

 kindliness and courtesy endeared him to all with whom 

 he came into contact. 



Balfour Browne was Lecturer on Botany at 

 Queen's, under the late Professor Gwynne-Vaughan 

 (whose widow is now Professor of Botany in London 

 University). Mr. Browne left Belfast to become Pro- 



